From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on git-filter-branch
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:58:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101125845.GA27567@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18217.52425.655322.52338@lisa.zopyra.com>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:55:37AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> In my repo, I have sensitive files A, C, and a directory full of
> sensitive stuff I want to remove forever from the git repository.
>
> % ls
> A B C D sensitive_stuff
>
> % git --version
> git version 1.5.3.5
>
> % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove A' HEAD
> Rewrite 5dd7d5f2d7d3a5f43c242188ac96294628267673 (7/7)
> Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten
>
> These refs were rewritten:
> % ls
> B C D sensitive_stuff
>
> % git status
> # On branch master
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> Ok, so I guess it has done what I wanted. So, I try to remove the
> next file that has sensitive information in it:
>
> % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove C' HEAD
> Namespace refs/original/ not empty
Just remove .git/refs/original/
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 13:00 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 [this message]
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
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2007-10-17 0:57 Bill Lear
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