Hi,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jan Wielemaker wrote:

quoted text
> Finished a big re-shuffle of a big project, while other developers 
> continued. Worked really well. Thanks guys! But now I have two top 
> directories and I want to create two new repositories, each containing 
> one of these directories (because the one holds copyrighted data and we 
> want the other to become public software). So, I happily run
> 
> 	$ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter RDF HEAD
> 
> Where RDF is an existing directory.  I get:
> 
> Rewrite 95807fe01c39d3092e3ac3a98061711323154d77 (1/12)fatal: Not a valid 
> object name 95807fe01c39d3092e3ac3a98061711323154d77:RDF
> Could not initialize the index

I guess that 95807fe01 is the parent of a commit adding the RDF/ 
directory.

The subdirectory filter does not look kindly upon a history where some 
commits lack the subdirectory in question.  However, this should work:

	git filter-branch --subdirectory--filter RDF 95807fe01..HEAD

Hth,
Dscho

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