Re: hiding a certain file from gitweb

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Aug 21, 2007, 22:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20070821224017.GA20263@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <85veb8mubx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

also sprach David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> [2007.08.21.2349 +0200]:

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> > one of my colleagues checked a file with thousands of email
> > addresses into git and pushed the commit, so now the file is on
> > gitweb. This was quite a while ago and we have over 500 commits and
> > several branches between now and then.
> 
> This sounds like you would be ok with the file never having been
> committed.  Use git-filter-branch for that.

This is awesome functionality — apart from the fact that I'd like to keep the file in the repo, just not on gitweb. But we already figured out a way to deal with the situation internally.

Thanks for showing me this tool.

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