On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:03PM +0800, David Shen wrote: > But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have > added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating > .gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the > index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in > the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them > from history. But, on windows, I think filter-branch runs under cygwin (I think it might even run on msysgit, but just hasn't been included in a shipped version yet). You can also filter-branch on Linux and then fetch or clone the result to Windows. -Peff -- 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