From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:38:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Removing things from a repo that shouldn't be there
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802101738120.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910802100915t56d0f63fh90c303b35f6af921@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:

> In the lazy clone thread there is mention of a large, generated file 
> being checked into the tree. Let's say we have a tree like this and it 
> is ok to delete the generated file since it didn't really need to be 
> checked in. Is there a procedure to chase down all the revisions, delete 
> them, and then regenerate the commits to reflect the deletion? I don't 
> need this tool, I'm just wondering if there is a reasonable solution to 
> the problem.

filter-branch.

Ciao,
Dscho