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Re: 500Mb file erroneously commited

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Jun 6, 2011, 07:51 UTC
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Bartolomeo Nicolotti venit, vidit, dixit 06.06.2011 09:43:
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> Hello,
> 
> we're using CVS to store some sources, but for some big projects I'm considering
> to use git. Last week it has happened that one collegue erroneously commited one
> big file, 500Mb the file only. To avoid to have this file in the repository
> we've deleted the history file in the CVS repository, the one with ,v, this has
> been easy as each file has its own history. Would it be possible to do the same
> with git, or there's no possibility to delete a 500Mb file erroneously commited?

Due to the way git (or hg or...) works, you would have to rewrite the history in order to remove a file from a repo completely. The first example in the git-filter-branch man page describes how to do this.

Michael
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