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Re: Migration problems from SVN

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ØHØyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date
Jan 6, 2009, 12:44 UTC
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> Øyvind Harboe wrote:
>> If I early on and accidentally commit a *large* binary object, how do I get rid
>> of it from .git again?
>
> git-filter-branch can do that.  See the top of the EXAMPLES section in

Ah! Thanks! I will study this. Thanks for your patience with a beginner, I guess I should have spotted this one. There is a lot to read and git is refreshingly different and there is a lot of things to catch up on.

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