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hi. sorry if this is not trivial to me. i copied the 3000 lines of code into a python script and saved it next to my local repository that i want to filter. when i go into the local repo and use |
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When you run "git CMD" and CMD is not something that git recognizes as an internal built in (e.g. commit, add, diff, log), then git looks for an executable or a script named "git-CMD". git isn't going to search your entire harddrive for such a thing though, instead it only looks in pre-recorded places where you want the system to look for executables. This list of locations is in a variable known as "PATH". You can lookup more information about how PATH works at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable). In most shells on Linux/MacOSX/BSD/etc., you'd modify the path with a command that looks like the following: You don't have to run git-filter-repo that way, though. You can always just run the script directly instead of trying to get git to call it: |
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On Windows I had to copy git-filter-repo.py and git-filter-repo into the git repository I wanted to work in and then |
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When you run "git CMD" and CMD is not something that git recognizes as an internal built in (e.g. commit, add, diff, log), then git looks for an executable or a script named "git-CMD". git isn't going to search your entire harddrive for such a thing though, instead it only looks in pre-recorded places where you want the system to look for executables. This list of locations is in a variable known as "PATH".
You can lookup more information about how PATH works at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable).
In most shells on Linux/MacOSX/BSD/etc., you'd modify the path with a command that looks like the following:
export PATH=$PATH:/directory/where/you/placed/the/new/script
You don't hav…