How to replace text of a single file and keep all files?

[GCheung55]

How do I go about replacing text of a single file and keep all the files?

I've tried the following command, however only lib/foo/bar.js is edited and kept while all files are removed:

git-filter-repo ./ --path 'lib/foo/bar.js' --replace-text '../expression.txt'

bfg-ish is able to target a file that matches the file basename and keep all history, but would act on all files matching the basename.

[newren]

See the contrib/filter-repo-demos/lint-history script in the repository, particularly the --relevant option. That'll let you do modifications to a single file or class of files while leaving all others present.

Besides the fact that filter-repo treats --path as select-these-paths-to-keep rather than select-these-paths-to-operate-on, your filter-repo command also has a stray ./ argument on it. What was your intended purpose with that argument?

[newren]

You could also use the new --file-info-callback instead of lint-history.