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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 14:34:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101133440.GA17239@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18217.53833.710503.667761@lisa.zopyra.com>

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.

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01 13:35 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 [this message]
2007-11-01 13:54       ` Bill Lear
2007-11-01 14:20       ` Alex Riesen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-17  0:57 Bill Lear

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