From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:30:57 GMT
Subject: Re: How to remove a commit object?
Message-ID: <48E4DB21.7020304@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <33f4f4d70810020726g71c6f39eq16585269fb268322@mail.gmail.com>

Klas Lindberg venit, vidit, dixit 02.10.2008 16:26:
> Repo size is a problem too, actually.
> 
> A solution to both problems seemed to be to use git-filter-branch to
> create a new repo by filtering out all the unwanted files. The
> astonishing result was that, for the subdirectory I tried it on, 90%
> or so of the commits on that subdirectory just disappeared. It didn't
> look right at all. Although I can't say for sure exactly what I did
> with filter-branch, I would appreciate some guidance for using it. It

I don't know about others, but I would appreciate more info:
Do you want to remove commits (as stated earlier) or files (as stated here)?
What are the boundary conditions? Rewriting history seems to be OK now.

> basically seemed to do exactly what I wanted (recreate the repo, minus
> some explicit stuff, with history intact otherwise), except the result
> looked crazy.

That may be due to the filter-branch incarnation, i.e. which refs did
you rewrite (--all or HEAD)?

Michael