From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:10:16 GMT
Subject: Re: 500Mb file erroneously commited
Message-ID: <vpq62oj2umf.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20110606075508.GC19127@axel>

Axel Freyn <axel-freyn@gmx.de> writes:

>  - if you have already other commit's on top of it, you can use e.g.
>    "git rebase" in order to redefine the history... something like (I'm
>    not sure it works exactly like that, but in principle)
>    git checkout -b tmp <WRONG_COMMIT>
>    git rm bigfile
>    git commit --amend
>    git checkout master
>    git rebase tmpfix
>    git branch -d tmpfix

That should work, but "git rebase -i" will make it much simpler (just
"edit" or even delete the guilty commit).

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Matthieu Moy
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