# removing very old commits (including initial)

3 messages from 2010-07-28 to 2010-07-28. Participants: Mihamina Rakotomandimby, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Santi Béjar.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24549

## Mihamina Rakotomandimby, 2010-07-28 08:53

Subject: removing very old commits (including initial)
Message-ID: <20100728115309.08ed6fdd@packard.rktmb.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100728115309.08ed6fdd%40packard.rktmb.org

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Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,

I work on a personnal project that become a little bit bigger over the
time.
Initially, it was a single file one, and that file contained database
credentials.
Later, I splat the project and put the credentials in another untracked
file (.gitignore).
When I want to publish this project, the history contains the initial
file, with the credentials. I dont want to publish that.

It's not a problem to definitely wipe the "single file" part of history
of this project, but interesting to keep the history after the
split&untracking.

How to?
Publishing will be through gitweb.

Misaotra, Thanks, Merci.

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## Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2010-07-28 09:10

Subject: Re: removing very old commits (including initial)
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikyN1yHEj%2BjS0JRbjO%2BuX4mo0sfQs13_YfTD13_%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20100728115309.08ed6fdd@packard.rktmb.org>

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:53, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
<mihamina@gulfsat.mg> wrote:

> It's not a problem to definitely wipe the "single file" part of history
> of this project, but interesting to keep the history after the
> split&untracking.

git-filter-branch(1) will do everything you need.

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## Santi Béjar, 2010-07-28 09:10

Subject: Re: removing very old commits (including initial)
Message-ID: <AANLkTim7yLFXZ8hgH1=agq2Qi7TUFk=348Pxb=SB67dm@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTim7yLFXZ8hgH1%3Dagq2Qi7TUFk%3D348Pxb%3DSB67dm%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20100728115309.08ed6fdd@packard.rktmb.org>

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
<mihamina@gulfsat.mg> wrote:
> Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,
>
> I work on a personnal project that become a little bit bigger over the
> time.
> Initially, it was a single file one, and that file contained database
> credentials.
> Later, I splat the project and put the credentials in another untracked
> file (.gitignore).
> When I want to publish this project, the history contains the initial
> file, with the credentials. I dont want to publish that.
>
> It's not a problem to definitely wipe the "single file" part of history
> of this project, but interesting to keep the history after the
> split&untracking.

If I understand you correctly you want to publish only the commits
since a particular commit, say "newroot". You can do it with "git
filter-branch". You have many different filters, but in you case I
would you grafts to cut the history and the rewrite the history with
git filter-branch.

In .git/info/grafts you put something like this:
HashOfTheNewRoot

It means that this commit has no parent, so you are cutting the
history. You can examine the history with git log or gitk to check
everything looks fine. To make it definitive you have to execute git
filter-branch:

$ git filter-branch -- --all

--all in this case means all the refs.

HTH,
Santi
>
> How to?
> Publishing will be through gitweb.
>
> Misaotra, Thanks, Merci.
>
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