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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on git-filter-branch
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:20:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101142051.GB14475@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071101133440.GA17239@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey, Thu, Nov 01, 2007 14:34:41 +0100:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:19:05AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> > >Just remove .git/refs/original/
> > 
> > Ok, thanks.  But, how do I remove the subdirectory?
> > 
> > % rm -rf .git/refs/original
> > % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove sensitive_stuff' HEAD
> > Rewrite 6711f6a50605918326f67ca0c3402eab9a4c8571 (8/8)
> > WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged
> 
> git-update-index --remove will remove files, not trees, so you need to
> use something like
> git-ls-files ensitive_stuff | xargs -d "\n" git-update-index --remove
> instead.

git ls-files -z sensitive_stuff | git update-index --remove -z --stdin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-01 12:55 Question on git-filter-branch Bill Lear
2007-11-01 12:58 ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-01 13:19   ` Bill Lear
2007-11-01 13:34     ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-01 13:54       ` Bill Lear
2007-11-01 14:20       ` Alex Riesen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-17  0:57 Bill Lear

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