On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Tom Avey <toma...@fgbc.org> wrote:
> I had some files that apache was keeping > in /public_html/logs/rewrite_log and that was being tracked by git. > Files were too large to push so I deleted them and stopped the > logging feature (I think it was a log of rewrites). But I am not > comfortable enough with git rm to confidently remove them from the > repository. Can anyone help? It's not really clear what you're asking for here. You can be quite confident `git rm` removed the files you told it to (if you committed the change then, of course) -- if it wouldn't it would be a bug in Git. On the other hand, `git rm` obviously only removes the files from the *present* state of the repository, that is, once you recorded a commit with these files deleted, they are no longer in the present state of the project but they are not somehow automatically removed from any *previous* commits they were part of. Hence if what you want is to completely wipe them off from the *history* of changes, pretending as if these files weren't there in the first place, you need another approach completely -- the `git filter-branch` command of something more simple-minded like [1]. 1. http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
