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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: marcreddist@aim.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Really remove a file ?
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:56:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0810091156v15dea27an95050a06cfb4f8df@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CAF851B91FEF07-660-20E9@webmail-da15.sysops.aol.com>

2008/10/9  <marcreddist@aim.com>:
> So is there a way to really remove a file in the git repository so that it
> never existed (I mean not having the diff in the logs and the data stored
> somewhere in the .git directory) ? Or if it's not the was git is supposed to
> be used, is there a way to hide the diff (even from git-log) or something ?

Yes. But you'll change the whole history (of course, it should _never_
mention the file).
See git filter-branch (there is even an example at the end of its man page.
Replace mv with rm)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-09 18:12 Really remove a file ? marcreddist
2008-10-09 18:56 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-10-09 23:43   ` Stefan Karpinski
2008-10-10  9:38     ` marcreddist
2008-10-10 14:32       ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-10-10 20:50         ` Stefan Karpinski

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