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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Removing things from a repo that shouldn't be there
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:38:20 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802101738120.11591@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910802100915t56d0f63fh90c303b35f6af921@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:

> In the lazy clone thread there is mention of a large, generated file 
> being checked into the tree. Let's say we have a tree like this and it 
> is ok to delete the generated file since it didn't really need to be 
> checked in. Is there a procedure to chase down all the revisions, delete 
> them, and then regenerate the commits to reflect the deletion? I don't 
> need this tool, I'm just wondering if there is a reasonable solution to 
> the problem.

filter-branch.

Ciao,
Dscho

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-10 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-10 17:15 Removing things from a repo that shouldn't be there Jon Smirl
2008-02-10 17:38 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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