Re: removing content from git history

>On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 03:58:57PM -0500, Bill Lear wrote:
>> As I understand this thread, it does not appear that a resolution
>> was reached.  Our company has content in our central git repository
>> that we need to remove per a contractual obligation.  I believe the
>> content in question is limited to one sub-directory, that has existed
>> since (or near to) the beginning of the repo, if that matters.  We
>> obviously would just like to issue a "git nuke" operation and be done
>> with it, if that is available.  Barring that, we could probably follow
>> reasonably simple steps to purge the content and rebuild the repo.
>> 
>> So, what options do we have at present?
>
>Have you looked at git-filter-branch in a recent version of git?  The
>man page has some good examples.