From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:44:52 +0100 Organization: glandium.org Message-ID: <20080328204452.GA15737@glandium.org> References: <1206707716.9819.15.camel@malory> <32541b130803280550u2ed23b5auc84bf935d5344e84@mail.gmail.com> <47ED204E.3020602@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alex Bennee , Avery Pennarun , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Sixt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 28 21:46:00 2008 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 1JfLSW-0006F6-6T for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:45:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754904AbYC1UpN (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:45:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754998AbYC1UpN (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:45:13 -0400 Received: from vuizook.err.no ([194.24.252.247]:38359 "EHLO vuizook.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754904AbYC1UpM (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:45:12 -0400 Received: from cha92-13-88-165-248-19.fbx.proxad.net ([88.165.248.19] helo=jigen) by vuizook.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JfLRa-0001jT-1q; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:45:04 +0100 Received: from mh by jigen with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JfLRU-0004dg-JI; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:44:52 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47ED204E.3020602@viscovery.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Spam-Status: (score 0.1): No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=disabled version=3.2.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:43:58PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Alex Bennee schrieb: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > >> ajb@pitcairn:/export/git/fresh.git$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter > >> 'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' dev-branch > >> warning: refname 'dev-branch' is ambiguous. > >> Which ref do you want to rewrite? > > > > Ignore me. Not sure why but: > > > > git-checkout dev-branch > > git-filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' HEAD > > You really shouldn't do it this way, unless you do it on a ramdisk. Better > use an --index-filter. This is modeled after the last example in the man > page (and, of course, untested): > > git filter-branch --index-filter \ > 'git ls-files -s | > grep -v " big_dira" | > grep -v " big_dirb" | > GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \ > git update-index --index-info && > mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE' HEAD git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached big_dira big_dirb' should be working nowadays. Mike