On Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 14:34:41 (+0100) Mike Hommey writes: >On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:19:05AM -0600, Bill Lear wrote: >> >Just remove .git/refs/original/ >> >> Ok, thanks. But, how do I remove the subdirectory? >> >> % rm -rf .git/refs/original >> % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove sensitive_stuff' HEAD >> Rewrite 6711f6a50605918326f67ca0c3402eab9a4c8571 (8/8) >> WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged > >git-update-index --remove will remove files, not trees, so you need to >use something like >git-ls-files ensitive_stuff | xargs -d "\n" git-update-index --remove >instead. Oh yeah, now we're cookin' with gas: % git filter-branch --index-filter 'git-ls-files sensitive_stuff | xargs -d "\n" git-update-index --remove' HEAD Rewrite 6711f6a50605918326f67ca0c3402eab9a4c8571 (8/8) Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten These refs were rewritten: blake^master ~*/sensitive.clone ls B D Excellent. Thanks for the help. Bill - 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