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Re: fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- folder'

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JMjean-christophe manciot <actionmystique@gmail.com>
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Jan 20, 2017, 15:24 UTC
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I've finally found the correct command after some significant research: git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --index-filter "git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch ${file_path}/${file_name}" --prune-empty --force -- --all

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:23 PM, jean-christophe manciot <actionmystique@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I've finally found the correct command after some significant research:
> git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --index-filter "git rm -r --cached
> --ignore-unmatch ${file_path}/${file_name}" --prune-empty --force -- --all
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:42 AM, jean-christophe manciot
> <actionmystique@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also some context information:
>> Ubuntu 16.10 4.8
>> git 2.11.0
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:32 AM, jean-christophe manciot
>> <actionmystique@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In case you were wondering whether these files were tracked or not:
>> >
>> > git-Games# git ls-files Ubuntu/16.04
>> > Ubuntu/16.04/residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb
>> > Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-data_1.8.0_all.deb
>> > Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-data_1.9.0_all.deb
>> > Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-dbgsym_1.8.2~git20160821.bad86050_amd64.deb
>> > Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb
>> > Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm_1.8.0_amd64.deb
>> > Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm_1.9.0_amd64.deb
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, jean-christophe manciot
>> > <actionmystique@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi there,
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to purge a complete folder and its files from the
>> >> repository history with:
>> >>
>> >> git-Games# git filter-branch 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch --
>> >> Ubuntu/16.04/' --tag-name-filter cat -- --all HEAD
>> >> fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- Ubuntu/16.04/'
>> >>
>> >> git does not find the folder although it's there:
>> >>
>> >> git-Games# ll Ubuntu/16.04/
>> >> total 150316
>> >> drwxr-x--- 2 actionmystique actionmystique     4096 Nov 19 13:40 ./
>> >> drwxr-x--- 4 actionmystique actionmystique     4096 Oct 30 14:02 ../
>> >> -rwxr-x--- 1 actionmystique actionmystique  2190394 May  9  2016
>> >> residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb*
>> >> ...
>> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 actionmystique actionmystique 67382492 Oct 13 09:15
>> >> scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb
>> >>
>> >> What is going on?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jean-Christophe
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jean-Christophe
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>> Jean-Christophe
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