I've imported the full history of a large project from Subversion using
the latest git-svn. The resulting repo is huge, and I believe it's due
in large part to a series of big tar.gz files that got checked into the
Subversion repository by mistake early in the project's history. They
were subsequently removed from svn, but of course git-svn grabs them and
puts them in my local history.
Is there any way to excise those files? They are of no interest to us
now -- they were data files for a third-party application we ended up
not using -- and they're making git look bad in the disk usage department.
I believe this has been asked before in the context of removing
copyrighted content from public repositories. However, I have a twist
that may make it easier: nobody else has cloned this repository yet. I
am free to rewrite history with no risk of messing up any downstream
repositories, and I don't have to worry about propagating the deletions
out to anyone. I just don't know how to do it (assuming it's doable at all.)
Thanks!
-Steve
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