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From: "Alex Bennee" <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Subject: Re: Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:03:18 +0000
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:

>  ajb@pitcairn:/export/git/fresh.git$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter
>  'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' dev-branch
>  warning: refname 'dev-branch' is ambiguous.
>  Which ref do you want to rewrite?

Ignore me. Not sure why but:

git-checkout dev-branch
git-filter-branch --tree-filter  'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' HEAD

works


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