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Re: deleting / adding files throughout the repository

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 8, 2009, 22:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20090608225508.GA21389@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:25:00PM +0100, Alex K wrote:
> Suppose I made a mistake in my repository. There is a file that should
> never have been there. How do I delete this file from the entire
> repository history? How do I add a file throughout the entire
> repository history as if this later file had always been there?

Use "git filter-branch". The examples section of "git help filter-branch" does the first part of what you're asking (and the second part is fairly easy to extrapolate).

-Peff
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