Klas Lindberg venit, vidit, dixit 02.10.2008 16:26: > Repo size is a problem too, actually. > > A solution to both problems seemed to be to use git-filter-branch to > create a new repo by filtering out all the unwanted files. The > astonishing result was that, for the subdirectory I tried it on, 90% > or so of the commits on that subdirectory just disappeared. It didn't > look right at all. Although I can't say for sure exactly what I did > with filter-branch, I would appreciate some guidance for using it. It I don't know about others, but I would appreciate more info: Do you want to remove commits (as stated earlier) or files (as stated here)? What are the boundary conditions? Rewriting history seems to be OK now. > basically seemed to do exactly what I wanted (recreate the repo, minus > some explicit stuff, with history intact otherwise), except the result > looked crazy. That may be due to the filter-branch incarnation, i.e. which refs did you rewrite (--all or HEAD)? Michael -- 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
