---- On Wed, 11 May 2016 07:08:02 -0700 Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote ----
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:47:20AM -0700, Geoff Nixon wrote:
>
> > the last line before it fails appears to be
> > `git rev-parse --no-flags --revs-only --symbolic-full-name
> > --default HEAD
\210\222 \210\222subdirectory \210\222filter`
> > (including the octal sequences and bad-unicode character, those
> > are not email artifacts)
>
> Are you sure that you are invoking filter-branch with regular ascii
> dashes, and not Unicode "minus-sign" (U+2212)?
>
> I seem to recall this coming up once before related to OS X, but I can't
> seem to find it in the archive. And I don't recall if it was related to
> the terminal, a keyboard setting, or something else.
That was it. I'm an idiot.
I sometimes use `man -t` to generate postscript for lengthy man pages so I can
"page through" outside my terminal.
It appears that for reasons unknown this converts all "-"s to "−"s. I must have
copy-pasted the example.
Then I kept using my shell history completion, never typing it out again.
Sorry for wasting your time, thanks for helping me figure this out.
-Geoff
>
> -Peff
>
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