From: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:03:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable
Message-ID: <b2cdc9f30803280903w4a6e3a6l9e33fd188af9995a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b2cdc9f30803280852y4f160bb2tda1e688ddf7213e7@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:

>  ajb@pitcairn:/export/git/fresh.git$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter
>  'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' dev-branch
>  warning: refname 'dev-branch' is ambiguous.
>  Which ref do you want to rewrite?

Ignore me. Not sure why but:

git-checkout dev-branch
git-filter-branch --tree-filter  'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' HEAD

works


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