Re: How to delete files and directories from git commit history?
Steve Litt writes: > But then I view all filenames from that directory that have ever been > in the project, as follows: > > git cat-file --buffer --batch-all-objects \ > --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname)' \ > | grep ^c | cut -d " " -f 2 \ > | xargs -n 1 git ls-tree -r | sort | uniq \ > | grep propdir > > The preceding command lists directory docs/propdir and all the files > it's ever contained In which repository did you run this? As cat-file's documentation clearly states, --batch-all-objects does not *care* about the reachability, so even after rewriting the history using filter-branch, as long as you have the original objects before your history rewrite in the repository, it _will_ see those trees with propdir, even if they are now unreachable thanks to your filter-branch. If you are doing the above in the original (or in a local clone), try running "git repack -a -d && git prune --expire=now" after filter-branch.
Re: How to delete files and directories from git commit history?
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Christian Couder wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> My project (call it myproject) had a directory (call it docs/propdir) >> that was unnecessary for the project, and I've decided I don't want to >> offer the files in that directory as free software. So I need to delete >> docs/propdir from all commits in the repository. I did the following, >> while in my working repository's myproject directory: >> >> git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf docs/propdir' HEAD > >> What command do I do to remove all mention of doc/propdir and its >> files from my git history? > > Did you check the "CHECKLIST FOR SHRINKING A REPOSITORY" section of > the filter-branch man/help page? Also see BFG Repo Cleaner for an alternative. https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
Re: How to delete files and directories from git commit history?
Hi, On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > My project (call it myproject) had a directory (call it docs/propdir) > that was unnecessary for the project, and I've decided I don't want to > offer the files in that directory as free software. So I need to delete > docs/propdir from all commits in the repository. I did the following, > while in my working repository's myproject directory: > > git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf docs/propdir' HEAD [...] > What command do I do to remove all mention of doc/propdir and its > files from my git history? Did you check the "CHECKLIST FOR SHRINKING A REPOSITORY" section of the filter-branch man/help page? Best, Christian.
Re: How to delete files and directories from git commit history?
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 03:44:13PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf docs/propdir' HEAD ... > What command do I do to remove all mention of doc/propdir and its > files from my git history? Are you sure that you pruned all branches? I would have expected a command like "git filter-branch ... -- --all" to prune every branch from the directories. Greetings, Eckhard
