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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to delete files and directories from git commit history?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:33:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSTyz7uG7RJFYKZEcS=+-i_mJh6abT7+ePiNm=D8s3RtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD38pLbAZce0bS=G62SCeTKvjn2Eao26Dkm5p72CAx3pYw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Also see BFG Repo Cleaner for an alternative.
https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-12 20:33 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
2018-06-12 20:33   ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2018-06-12 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano

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