From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:20:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Question on git-filter-branch
Message-ID: <20071101142051.GB14475@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071101133440.GA17239@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey, Thu, Nov 01, 2007 14:34:41 +0100:
> 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.

git ls-files -z sensitive_stuff | git update-index --remove -z --stdin