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Re: How to remove a commit object?

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KLKlas Lindberg <klas.lindberg@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2008, 11:42 UTC
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
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>> with filter-branch, I would appreciate some guidance for using it. It
>> basically seemed to do exactly what I wanted (recreate the repo, minus
>> some explicit stuff, with history intact otherwise), except the result
>> looked crazy.
>
> And your definition of 'crazy' is...?

Right... :-) Crazy == Obviously incorrect behaviour that I didn't analyze. Out of 167 commits on subdirectory B, only 14 survived the filtering.

I tried "git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf <list of everything except B>' HEAD" instead, but I can't use that. The change history for all the non-B paths are still in the repo afterwards, and thus you can easily recreate any file outside subdirectory B.

Is there some way to do what I need with git-filter-branch today, or must I wait until 1.6.1 is released?

BR / Klas
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> I assume that you used --subdirectory-filter. This has issues that will be
> fixed in 1.6.1. You need a current 'master' git (at least b805ef08).
>
> -- Hannes
>
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  1. Steven GrimmSep 18, 2008
  2. Michael J GruberSep 19, 2008
  3. Klas LindbergOct 2, 2008
  4. Michael J GruberOct 2, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiOct 2, 2008
  6. Klas LindbergOct 2, 2008
  7. Michael J GruberOct 2, 2008
  8. Klas LindbergOct 2, 2008
  9. Johannes SixtOct 2, 2008
  10. Klas LindbergOct 3, 2008
  11. Johannes SixtOct 3, 2008

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