Jan Wielemaker wrote: [...] > % git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter packages/chr HEAD > > This indeed creates a nice directory holding only the contents of > packages/chr. But, starting qgit I see that all commits, also those > that had absolutely nothing to do with this dir are still there. The trick is to rewrite all refs, not just HEAD. I usually proceed as follows: cp -a repo repo.old # just to keep a backup cd repo git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter somedir -- --all The --all tells it to rewrite as many refs as possible. Note that the -- is required. Also note that refs/original/* will still point to the old commits, so they won't "just vanish". You may want to clone the repository or delete them manually once you are sure the filter-branch did the right thing. - Thomas
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