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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Remove all files except a few files, using filter-branch
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:06:59 +0200
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"Yi, EungJun" <semtlenori@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, all.
>
> I want to remove all files except a few files, in the history of my
> git repository.
>
> I tried to do that as follows:
>
>     git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch
> $(git ls-files | grep -v '^filename$' | tr '\n' ' ')"

Try instead first removing all files, then restoring the files you want
to keep.

--index-filter "git rm --cached -qr -- . && git reset -q -- filename"

Andreas.

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