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Re: How to delete files and directories from git commit history?

From
Eckhard Maaß <eckhard.s.maass@googlemail.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2018, 20:25 UTC
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<20180612202509.GA25677@esm>
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<20180612154413.3df64441@mydesk.domain.cxm>
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 03:44:13PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf docs/propdir' HEAD
...
> What command do I do to remove all mention of doc/propdir and its
> files from my git history?

Are you sure that you pruned all branches? I would have expected a command like "git filter-branch ... -- --all" to prune every branch from the directories.

Greetings, Eckhard

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