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Re: Question on git-filter-branch

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Nov 1, 2007, 13:34 UTC
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<20071101133440.GA17239@glandium.org>
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<18217.53833.710503.667761@lisa.zopyra.com>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:19:05AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
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> >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.

Mike
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