Re: removing content from git history

From: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Date: Feb 21, 2007, 18:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20070221183028.GA9088@ginosko.local>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702210904350.4043@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:14:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
>    See "cg-admin-rewritehist" from cogito for an example of a tool that 
>    would do what you need done. In fact, it has this exact thing as the 
>    first example.

That's just what I was looking for.  Thanks.

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> So right now, rewriting history is an option that you can do. It will 
> effectively create a totally new branch (which you can then make into a 
> new repository) which has nothing in common with the old branch from the 
> point where it was modified. So you can never really merge the two ever 
> again, and you need to make sure that everybody who had the old repo 
> contents will destroy it.

What's a decent way to make a branch into a new repository? My first inclination is to "cp -a" the existing repository, checkout the branch, delete all other branches and repack. That seems to have worked in my quick test, but is there a better way?

-- 
Michael