Re: Question on git-filter-branch

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2007, 13:54 UTC
Message-ID: <18217.55984.327062.84306@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071101133440.GA17239@glandium.org>

On Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 14:34:41 (+0100) Mike Hommey writes:

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>On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:19:05AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
>> >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
>
>git-update-index --remove will remove files, not trees, so you need to
>use something like
>git-ls-files ensitive_stuff | xargs -d "\n" git-update-index --remove
>instead.

Oh yeah, now we're cookin' with gas:

% git filter-branch --index-filter 'git-ls-files sensitive_stuff | xargs -d "\n" git-update-index --remove' HEAD Rewrite 6711f6a50605918326f67ca0c3402eab9a4c8571 (8/8) Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten

These refs were rewritten: blake^master ~*/sensitive.clone ls B D

Excellent.

Thanks for the help.

Bill