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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 500Mb file erroneously commited
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:10:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq62oj2umf.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110606075508.GC19127@axel> (Axel Freyn's message of "Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:55:08 +0200")

Axel Freyn <axel-freyn@gmx.de> writes:

>  - if you have already other commit's on top of it, you can use e.g.
>    "git rebase" in order to redefine the history... something like (I'm
>    not sure it works exactly like that, but in principle)
>    git checkout -b tmp <WRONG_COMMIT>
>    git rm bigfile
>    git commit --amend
>    git checkout master
>    git rebase tmpfix
>    git branch -d tmpfix

That should work, but "git rebase -i" will make it much simpler (just
"edit" or even delete the guilty commit).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-06  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-06  7:43 500Mb file erroneously commited Bartolomeo Nicolotti
2011-06-06  7:51 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-06-06  7:55 ` Axel Freyn
2011-06-06  9:10   ` Matthieu Moy [this message]

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