From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:40:46 GMT
Subject: Re: How to safely remove a blob
Message-ID: <AANLkTinrV3hKEva5qnaLniP+VoO2trrTVsWcc6YoBQ=t@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D5A358F.2050906@ilt.fraunhofer.de>

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").

> I guess simply deleting the file could corrupt my repo
> or at least the clones of that repo.

The repo itself.