On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:55:37AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote: > In my repo, I have sensitive files A, C, and a directory full of > sensitive stuff I want to remove forever from the git repository. > > % ls > A B C D sensitive_stuff > > % git --version > git version 1.5.3.5 > > % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove A' HEAD > Rewrite 5dd7d5f2d7d3a5f43c242188ac96294628267673 (7/7) > Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten > > These refs were rewritten: > % ls > B C D sensitive_stuff > > % git status > # On branch master > nothing to commit (working directory clean) > > Ok, so I guess it has done what I wanted. So, I try to remove the > next file that has sensitive information in it: > > % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove C' HEAD > Namespace refs/original/ not empty Just remove .git/refs/original/ Mike - 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
