Beginner Help: I used invert-paths; are the files still supposed to be listed in the commit message?

[whitemagehealing]

So, I used a command that was similar to the example:

git filter-repo --path README.md --path guides/ --path tools/releases --invert-paths

It seemed to work okay according to --analyze results in .git, but if I look at the git history with GitLens or Git History in VS Code, I expected that the undesired filenames would be stripped out of all the commits messages / digests. However, the file names still showed that the files were committed. I also understand that the TEXT of the message body would probably stay the same unless I manually hunted for it and changed it.

So, is this the expected behavior, or did I do something wrong? If this is expected, is there a way to get the files removed from the list of files in the commit list?

Sorry, I'm still learning git as well, so I don't even know the correct terminology. Feel free to enlighten me regarding them. If this is a duplicate question, I'm sorry again. It is because I don't know how to phrase what I'm asking about.

[me-and]

This is expected behaviour: your files and your commit messages are different things. filter-repo won't change your commit messages unless you explicitly ask it to.