From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on git-filter-branch
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 07:54:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18217.55984.327062.84306@lisa.zopyra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071101133440.GA17239@glandium.org>
On Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 14:34:41 (+0100) Mike Hommey writes:
>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.
Oh yeah, now we're cookin' with gas:
% git filter-branch --index-filter 'git-ls-files sensitive_stuff | xargs -d "\n" git-update-index --remove' HEAD
Rewrite 6711f6a50605918326f67ca0c3402eab9a4c8571 (8/8)
Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten
These refs were rewritten:
blake^master ~*/sensitive.clone ls
B D
Excellent.
Thanks for the help.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 13:55 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 [this message]
2007-11-01 14:20 ` Alex Riesen
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2007-10-17 0:57 Bill Lear
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