Thank-you for all of your insightful help. Combining all the advice, the commands that worked are: git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch $files" --tag-name-filter cat -- --all git -rf .git/refs/original git reflog expire --expire=now git gc --prune=now I then cloned the repository to a different location and replaced my centralized version with the cloned copy. Thanks, Nils On 10/2/09 6:41 AM, "Johannes Sixt" <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mikael Magnusson schrieb: >> Well, you just gave "HEAD" to git filter-branch to rewrite, i think >> you want --all to rewrite all refs you have. > > ... and '--tag-filter cat' to rewrite tags as well. > > -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html