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Re: hiding a certain file from gitweb

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Aug 21, 2007, 21:49 UTC
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martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:
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> Dear list,
>
> one of my colleagues checked a file with thousands of email
> addresses into git and pushed the commit, so now the file is on
> gitweb. This was quite a while ago and we have over 500 commits and
> several branches between now and then.

This sounds like you would be ok with the file never having been committed. Use git-filter-branch for that.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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