From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: Re: Question on git-filter-branch Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 07:54:56 -0600 Message-ID: <18217.55984.327062.84306@lisa.zopyra.com> References: <18217.52425.655322.52338@lisa.zopyra.com> <20071101125845.GA27567@glandium.org> <18217.53833.710503.667761@lisa.zopyra.com> <20071101133440.GA17239@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Hommey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 01 14:55:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InaW9-0007uf-4q for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:55:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753566AbXKANzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:55:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753717AbXKANzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:55:14 -0400 Received: from mail.zopyra.com ([65.68.225.25]:60595 "EHLO zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753551AbXKANzN (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:55:13 -0400 Received: (from rael@localhost) by zopyra.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id lA1Dt2B16608; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 07:55:02 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20071101133440.GA17239@glandium.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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