Re: Question on git-filter-branch

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2007, 13:19 UTC
Message-ID: <18217.53833.710503.667761@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071101125845.GA27567@glandium.org>

On Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 13:58:45 (+0100) Mike Hommey writes:

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>On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:55:37AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
>> In my repo, I have sensitive files A, C, and a directory full of
>> sensitive stuff I want to remove forever from the git repository.
>> 
>> % ls
>> A B C D sensitive_stuff
>> 
>> % git --version
>> git version 1.5.3.5
>> 
>> % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove A' HEAD
>> Rewrite 5dd7d5f2d7d3a5f43c242188ac96294628267673 (7/7)
>> Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten
>> 
>> These refs were rewritten:
>> % ls
>> B  C  D  sensitive_stuff
>> 
>> % git status
>> # On branch master
>> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>> 
>> Ok, so I guess it has done what I wanted.  So, I try to remove the
>> next file that has sensitive information in it:
>> 
>> % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove C' HEAD
>> Namespace refs/original/ not empty
>
>Just remove .git/refs/original/

Ok, thanks.  But, how do I remove the subdirectory?

% rm -rf .git/refs/original
% git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove sensitive_stuff' HEAD
Rewrite 6711f6a50605918326f67ca0c3402eab9a4c8571 (8/8)
WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged

% ls sensitive_stuff
E  F  G
% git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove sensitive_stuff/*' HEAD
Rewrite 6711f6a50605918326f67ca0c3402eab9a4c8571 (8/8)
WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged

% ls sensitive_stuff E F G

% cd sensitive_stuff % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove E F G' HEAD fatal: Not a git repository: '.git' You need to run this command from the toplevel of the working tree.

Bill