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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: removing content from git history
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:02:35 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 03:58:57PM -0500, Bill Lear wrote:
> As I understand this thread, it does not appear that a resolution
> was reached.  Our company has content in our central git repository
> that we need to remove per a contractual obligation.  I believe the
> content in question is limited to one sub-directory, that has existed
> since (or near to) the beginning of the repo, if that matters.  We
> obviously would just like to issue a "git nuke" operation and be done
> with it, if that is available.  Barring that, we could probably follow
> reasonably simple steps to purge the content and rebuild the repo.
> 
> So, what options do we have at present?

Have you looked at git-filter-branch in a recent version of git?  The
man page has some good examples.

--b.