Re: How to safely remove a blob

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2011, 08:42 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=N15_2aDbw=x_m6rPWYdgwcBkn0LvmtZVt2W48@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinrV3hKEva5qnaLniP+VoO2trrTVsWcc6YoBQ=t@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:40, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:13, Rolf Wester
> <rolf.wester@ilt.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>> in one of my git repos I found an 102 MB object that probably came in there
>> more or less occasionally.
>> Its a blob and I would like to remove it safely. I tried to figure out how
>> to do it but I was not very successful.
>
> Take a look at "git filter-branch". There is even an example which
> does exactly this (search for "git filter-branch --tree-filter").

... search in the manpage of filter-branch. Sorry.