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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to delete files and directories from git commit history?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:26:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD38pLbAZce0bS=G62SCeTKvjn2Eao26Dkm5p72CAx3pYw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180612154413.3df64441@mydesk.domain.cxm>

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> My project (call it myproject) had a directory (call it docs/propdir)
> that was unnecessary for the project, and I've decided I don't want to
> offer the files in that directory as free software. So I need to delete
> docs/propdir from all commits in the repository. I did the following,
> while in my working repository's myproject directory:
>
> git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf docs/propdir' HEAD

[...]

> What command do I do to remove all mention of doc/propdir and its
> files from my git history?

Did you check the "CHECKLIST FOR SHRINKING A REPOSITORY" section of
the filter-branch man/help page?

Best,
Christian.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-12 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-12 19:44 How to delete files and directories from git commit history? Steve Litt
2018-06-12 20:25 ` Eckhard Maaß
2018-06-12 20:26 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2018-06-12 20:33   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-06-12 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano

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