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Re: Question on git-filter-branch

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Nov 1, 2007, 12:58 UTC
Message-ID
<20071101125845.GA27567@glandium.org>
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<18217.52425.655322.52338@lisa.zopyra.com>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:55:37AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
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> 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/
Mike
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