From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:51:10 GMT
Subject: Re: 500Mb file erroneously commited
Message-ID: <4DEC86EE.1030101@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110606T093627-918@post.gmane.org>

Bartolomeo Nicolotti venit, vidit, dixit 06.06.2011 09:43:
> 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