filter-branch: don't use xargs -0

peff · gitster · commit d89c1dfac939 · 2008-03-13T00:57:53.000-07:00
Some versions of xargs don't understand "-0"; fortunately in
this case we can get the same effect by using "git clean".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ while read commit parents; do
 			die "Could not checkout the index"
 		# files that $commit removed are now still in the working tree;
 		# remove them, else they would be added again
-		git ls-files -z --others | xargs -0 rm -f
+		git clean -q -f -x
 		eval "$filter_tree" < /dev/null ||
 			die "tree filter failed: $filter_tree"
 
