Gitsters:
El Goog has the wrong answer for the question "how do I forget about a file?" Someone cheerfully directed me to git rm, as equivalent to svn rm.
I don't need the actual file to go away. (I, uh, mumble, checked in too much when starting out, and now git commit is slooow.)
How do I tell git to forget about a file, but leave on my hard drive?
-- Phlip (BTW, the 1980s called - they want their mailing list software back!;)
Re: fuggedabadit
2009/6/14 Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com>:
> Gitsters: > > El Goog has the wrong answer for the question "how do I forget about a > file?" Someone cheerfully directed me to git rm, as equivalent to svn rm. > > I don't need the actual file to go away. (I, uh, mumble, checked in too much > when starting out, and now git commit is slooow.) > > How do I tell git to forget about a file, but leave on my hard drive?
man git-rm or:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rm.html
have the answer.
HTH, Santi
Sverre RabbelierRe: fuggedabadit
Heya,
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 06:51, Phlip<phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I tell git to forget about a file, but leave on my hard drive?
Do you want to simply 'git rm --cached && git commit -m "remove file"' to create a commit that removes it, or do you want to remove the file from your repo's history too? If the latter is the case, you should look into 'git filter-branch'.
-- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier