Re: Remove all files except a few files, using filter-branch

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sep 16, 2012, 17:06 UTC
Message-ID: <m24nmxkibw.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAFT+Tg_ipyPgNQxx8XsXySzmA3YM3mKe1gB5GyTNqN++gdphnQ@mail.gmail.com>

"Yi, EungJun" <semtlenori@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi, all.
>
> I want to remove all files except a few files, in the history of my
> git repository.
>
> I tried to do that as follows:
>
>     git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch
> $(git ls-files | grep -v '^filename$' | tr '\n' ' ')"

Try instead first removing all files, then restoring the files you want to keep.

--index-filter "git rm --cached -qr -- . && git reset -q -- filename"

Andreas.

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