On 04/27/2011 03:58 PM, Eric Frederich wrote: > I have been adding build files (.dll and .so files) to my git > repository periodically when I have been doing builds of my project. > I know I shouldn't be doing this and want to set up some other kind of > separate archive or something for built files. > > Although there are other devs on the project, I am the only one using > Git. Everyone else uses AccuRev. > Personally, I maintain my own Git repo (with an AccuRev git branch). > > I would like to remove all traces of those .dll and .so files if I > could in my git repository. > I realize this would mess with hashes and would ultimately result in a > completely new tree. > I am fine with that since, as I said, I am the only user of this Git repo. > > So, can this be done? Can I rebuild the tree preserving commit > messages, timestamps, etc but ignoring certain files? Something like this, perhaps: git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch --quiet '*.dll' '*.so' " -- --all More examples here: git filter-branch --help Phil -- 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