From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: Question on git-filter-branch Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:58:45 +0100 Organization: glandium.org Message-ID: <20071101125845.GA27567@glandium.org> References: <18217.52425.655322.52338@lisa.zopyra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Lear X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 01 14:00:20 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 1InZej-00034o-HV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:00:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756654AbXKAM7k (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:59:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755079AbXKAM7k (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:59:40 -0400 Received: from vawad.err.no ([85.19.200.177]:36630 "EHLO vawad.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756615AbXKAM7j (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:59:39 -0400 Received: from aputeaux-153-1-31-123.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr ([82.124.1.123] helo=namakemono.glandium.org) by vawad.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1InZe1-0005jk-8q; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:59:35 +0100 Received: from mh by namakemono.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1InZdF-0007G4-VA; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:58:46 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18217.52425.655322.52338@lisa.zopyra.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Spam-Status: (score 2.0): Status=No hits=2.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL version=3.1.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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