lt;directory&gt;</dt>
<dd>
<p>Use this option to set the path to the temporary directory used for
rewriting.  When applying a tree filter, the command needs to
temporarily check out the tree to some directory, which may consume
considerable space in case of large projects.  By default it
does this in the <code>.git-rewrite/</code> directory but you can override
that choice by this parameter.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">-f</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">--force</dt>
<dd>
<p><em>git filter-branch</em> refuses to 