From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:31:46 GMT
Subject: Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files
Message-ID: <20090306143146.GA4001@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <53e35fd50903060602n2573217evcd48fdf822adf972@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:03PM +0800, David Shen wrote:

> But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have
> added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating
> .gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the
> index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in
> the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them
> from history. But, on windows,

I think filter-branch runs under cygwin (I think it might even run on
msysgit, but just hasn't been included in a shipped version yet). You
can also filter-branch on Linux and then fetch or clone the result to
Windows.

-Peff