Thank you Terry. Much appreciated

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Please read this carefully if you get Leo from GitHub - even if you
> just pull Leo from GitHub and don't make commits that get pushed back.
>
> A large binary file was accidentally added to the repo. Tue Oct 31
> 22:26:38 2017 -0700.  If you have pulled since then, you will have
> this file in your local clone of the repository.
>
> If you haven't pulled since the above, you can stop reading, you're
> good to go.  The offending commit is 6a9d73f6db03, check that that's
> not in you `git log`
>
> Because it seemed better to fix it as quickly as possible, I just did
> a forced push that eliminated the large file from GitHub's history.
>
> If you've made no commits / changes to the leo-editor repository since
> then, you can either:
>
> Just delete you local clone and clone fresh
>
> OR
>
> git reset --hard e312165e19342
> git pull
>
> in your local clone.
>
> What you don't want to do is just pull as usual, even if you don't
> usually commit to Leo, git will see the two extra commits as new work
> and want to merge / push them back.
>
> If you have done new work in the repository you want to keep, zip up a
> full copy of its current state before proceeding, then make a fixed
> version of the repo. as above and move your changes in to that.
>
> I hope there wasn't an easier way of dealing with this, other than
> leaving the file in the repo., but it seemed like the sooner these
> steps were taken the fewer people would be impacted.
>
> Cheers -Terry
>
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