From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:49:38 GMT
Subject: Re: hiding a certain file from gitweb
Message-ID: <85veb8mubx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070821190225.GA7133@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

> 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