From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Gelonida <gelonida@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to squash a few commits in the past
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 08:45:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE2659D.2070208@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100503T112508-677@post.gmane.org>
Am 5/3/2010 11:33, schrieb Gelonida:
> One of the team members accidentally commited a very huge file together with
> some useful sources.
> a few commits later he noticed his error and removed the huge file.
>
> The plan would be:
> - create a new git repository without the huge file
> - let everybody clone the new repository and continue working.
Use 'git filter-branch':
git filter-branch \
--index-filter 'git rm --ignore-unmatch --cached the/huge/file' \
--prune-empty \
-- --all
The --prune-empty removes the commit that removed the file from the
history if the removal of the/huge/file was the only thing it did.
If you have tags that must be rewritten, add "--tag-name-filter cat" to
the command before "--".
Try this in a backup copy or clone first!
-- Hannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-06 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-03 9:33 how to squash a few commits in the past Gelonida
2010-05-03 10:09 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-05-03 20:45 ` Gelonida
2010-05-03 20:55 ` Gelonida
2010-05-03 21:20 ` Gelonida
2010-05-05 13:19 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-05-05 21:41 ` Gelonida
2010-05-06 6:45 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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