"Yi, EungJun" <semtlenori@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, all. > > I want to remove all files except a few files, in the history of my > git repository. > > I tried to do that as follows: > > git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch > $(git ls-files | grep -v '^filename$' | tr '\n' ' ')" Try instead first removing all files, then restoring the files you want to keep. --index-filter "git rm --cached -qr -- . && git reset -q -- filename" Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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