From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marcreddist@aim.com Subject: Really remove a file ? Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:12:28 -0400 Message-ID: <8CAF851B91FEF07-660-20E9@webmail-da15.sysops.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 09 20:22:16 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 1Ko09M-0003NK-A6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:22:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754251AbYJISUy (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:20:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754301AbYJISUx (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:20:53 -0400 Received: from imo-m23.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.4]:42151 "EHLO imo-m23.mx.aol.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753793AbYJISUx (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:20:53 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 482 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:20:53 EDT Received: from marcreddist@aim.com by imo-m23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v39.1.) id x.d41.27c40f55 (34921) for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:12:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtprly-da03.mx.aol.com (smtprly-da03.mx.aol.com [205.188.249.146]) by cia-da03.mx.aol.com (v121_r3.13) with ESMTP id MAILCIADA036-886948ee499a7; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:12:42 -0400 Received: from webmail-da15 (webmail-da15.webmail.aol.com [205.188.212.210]) by smtprly-da03.mx.aol.com (v121_r3.13) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYDA032-5bbb48ee498b117; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:12:27 -0400 X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI X-AOL-IP: 62.23.145.195 X-MB-Message-Type: User X-Mailer: AIM WebMail 39155-STANDARD Received: from 62.23.145.195 by webmail-da15.sysops.aol.com (205.188.212.210) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:12:28 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I'm a new git user for some weeks or so and well i think git is awesome. I didn't read all the online docs and mans yet, but i'm already really impressed by it's power. Thanks everyone for this helpful tool. Right now i think i need some help. I started to work for a project, and everything went fine. But I noticed someone placed a huge data file in the repository. This file shouldn't have been here at the first place. So I deleted it with git-rm. But that wasn't clever because now, "git log -p" or "git log -S'something'" are really really slow. Also diffs are huge and lots of command results are hard to read. 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 ? Thank you again, -- Marc R.