From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: hiding a certain file from gitweb Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:49:38 +0200 Message-ID: <85veb8mubx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20070821190225.GA7133@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git discussion list To: martin f krafft X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 21 23:49:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INbbk-0003Op-DT for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:49:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754970AbXHUVts (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:49:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754847AbXHUVtr (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:49:47 -0400 Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]:43585 "EHLO mail-in-01.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754531AbXHUVtq (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:49:46 -0400 Received: from mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.14]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E118315BC26; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:49:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39981147B5; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:49:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-062-171.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.62.171]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A782BAA23; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:49:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id CA5151C36605; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:49:38 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20070821190225.GA7133@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> (martin f. krafft's message of "Tue\, 21 Aug 2007 21\:02\:25 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/4023/Tue Aug 21 22:46:27 2007 on mail-in-05.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: martin f krafft writes: > Dear list, > > one of my colleagues checked a file with thousands of email > addresses into git and pushed the commit, so now the file is on > gitweb. This was quite a while ago and we have over 500 commits and > several branches between now and then. This sounds like you would be ok with the file never having been committed. Use git-filter-branch for that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum