Bartolomeo Nicolotti venit, vidit, dixit 06.06.2011 09:43: > Hello, > > we're using CVS to store some sources, but for some big projects I'm considering > to use git. Last week it has happened that one collegue erroneously commited one > big file, 500Mb the file only. To avoid to have this file in the repository > we've deleted the history file in the CVS repository, the one with ,v, this has > been easy as each file has its own history. Would it be possible to do the same > with git, or there's no possibility to delete a 500Mb file erroneously commited? Due to the way git (or hg or...) works, you would have to rewrite the history in order to remove a file from a repo completely. The first example in the git-filter-branch man page describes how to do this. Michael -- 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