From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:44:24 GMT
Subject: Re: SVN -> Git *but* with special changes
Message-ID: <vpq62kc36kn.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <16808473.33899.1317229852319.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>

Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com> writes:

>> 2. Keeping binary files in version control isn't a big deal because
>> the whole repo doesn't get copied to everyone's system or use up 
>> people's GitHub storage space.
>
> I'd eliminate these on the SVN side before converting to Git. If you
> have svnadmin access to the SVN repo svnadmin dump, svndumpfilter,
> svnadmin load is a pretty easy process.

Otherwise, you can do it on the Git side with:

  git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f some-large-blob'

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/