On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 01:23:16PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> 'git filter-branch' fails complaining about an ambiguous argument, if
> a tree-filter renames a path and the new pathname happens to match an
> existing object name.
> 
> After the tree-filter has been applied, 'git filter-branch' looks for
> changed paths by running:
> 
>   git diff-index -r --name-only --ignore-submodules $commit
> 
> which then, because of the lack of disambiguating double-dash, can't
> decide whether to treat '$commit' as revision or path and errors out.
> 
> Add that disambiguating double-dash after 'git diff-index's revision
> argument to make sure that '$commit' is interpreted as a revision.

Thanks, looks obviously correct.

-Peff
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