Documentation: help: describe 'man.viewer' config variable

diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index ebf05ca600739fcb8103dcebc6b9172eebfdacca..010353ad82881886b9739cc5f8de595acc9273ef 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ orig_namespace=refs/original/
 force=
 while :
 do
-       test $# = 0 && usage
        case "$1" in
        --)
                shift
@@ -189,6 +188,9 @@ cd "$tempdir/t" &&
 workdir="$(pwd)" ||
 die ""
 
+# Remove tempdir on exit
+trap 'cd ../..; rm -rf "$tempdir"' 0
+
 # Make sure refs/original is empty
 git for-each-ref > "$tempdir"/backup-refs
 while read sha1 type name
@@ -210,7 +212,7 @@ GIT_WORK_TREE=.
 export GIT_DIR GIT_WORK_TREE
 
 # The refs should be updated if their heads were rewritten
-git rev-parse --no-flags --revs-only --symbolic-full-name "$@" |
+git rev-parse --no-flags --revs-only --symbolic-full-name --default HEAD "$@" |
 sed -e '/^^/d' >"$tempdir"/heads
 
 test -s "$tempdir"/heads ||
@@ -250,7 +252,16 @@ while read commit parents; do
                git read-tree -i -m $commit
                ;;
        *)
-               git read-tree -i -m $commit:"$filter_subdir"
+               # The commit may not have the subdirectory at all
+               err=$(git read-tree -i -m $commit:"$filter_subdir" 2>&1) || {
+                       if ! git rev-parse --verify $commit:"$filter_subdir" 2>/dev/null
+                       then
+                               rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"
+                       else
+                               echo >&2 "$err"
+                               false
+                       fi
+               }
        esac || die "Could not initialize the index"
 
        GIT_COMMIT=$commit
@@ -274,10 +285,11 @@ while read commit parents; do
                eval "$filter_tree" < /dev/null ||
                        die "tree filter failed: $filter_tree"
 
-               git diff-index -r $commit | cut -f 2- | tr '\012' '\000' | \
-                       xargs -0 git update-index --add --replace --remove
-               git ls-files -z --others | \
-                       xargs -0 git update-index --add --replace --remove
+               (
+                       git diff-index -r --name-only $commit
+                       git ls-files --others
+               ) |
+               git update-index --add --replace --remove --stdin
        fi
 
        eval "$filter_index" < /dev/null ||
@@ -406,6 +418,8 @@ fi
 cd ../..
 rm -rf "$tempdir"
 
+trap - 0
+
 unset GIT_DIR GIT_WORK_TREE GIT_INDEX_FILE
 test -z "$ORIG_GIT_DIR" || GIT_DIR="$ORIG_GIT_DIR" && export GIT_DIR
 test -z "$ORIG_GIT_WORK_TREE" || GIT_WORK_TREE="$ORIG_GIT_WORK_TREE" &&