From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Bartolomeo Nicolotti <bnicolotti@siapcn.it>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 500Mb file erroneously commited
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:51:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEC86EE.1030101@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110606T093627-918@post.gmane.org>
Bartolomeo Nicolotti venit, vidit, dixit 06.06.2011 09:43:
> Hello,
>
> we're using CVS to store some sources, but for some big projects I'm considering
> to use git. Last week it has happened that one collegue erroneously commited one
> big file, 500Mb the file only. To avoid to have this file in the repository
> we've deleted the history file in the CVS repository, the one with ,v, this has
> been easy as each file has its own history. Would it be possible to do the same
> with git, or there's no possibility to delete a 500Mb file erroneously commited?
Due to the way git (or hg or...) works, you would have to rewrite the
history in order to remove a file from a repo completely. The first
example in the git-filter-branch man page describes how to do this.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-06 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-06 7:43 500Mb file erroneously commited Bartolomeo Nicolotti
2011-06-06 7:51 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2011-06-06 7:55 ` Axel Freyn
2011-06-06 9:10 ` Matthieu Moy
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