From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: Re: removing content from git history Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:25:23 -0500 Message-ID: <18187.65491.551693.644510@lisa.zopyra.com> References: <20070221164527.GA8513@ginosko.local> <20070221165636.GH25559@spearce.org> <20070221171738.GA9112@fieldses.org> <20070221210045.GB26525@spearce.org> <20070221212129.GD26525@spearce.org> <18187.60305.613904.547916@lisa.zopyra.com> <20071009210235.GB9633@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Linus Torvalds , Michael Hendricks , git@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 10 00:25:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IfNWJ-0003Ds-N0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:25:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752939AbXJIWZe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:25:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752034AbXJIWZe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:25:34 -0400 Received: from mail.zopyra.com ([65.68.225.25]:61744 "EHLO zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751770AbXJIWZd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:25:33 -0400 Received: (from rael@localhost) by zopyra.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id l99MPNC26936; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:25:23 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20071009210235.GB9633@fieldses.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 17:02:35 (-0400) J. Bruce Fields writes: >On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 03:58:57PM -0500, Bill Lear wrote: >> As I understand this thread, it does not appear that a resolution >> was reached. Our company has content in our central git repository >> that we need to remove per a contractual obligation. I believe the >> content in question is limited to one sub-directory, that has existed >> since (or near to) the beginning of the repo, if that matters. We >> obviously would just like to issue a "git nuke" operation and be done >> with it, if that is available. Barring that, we could probably follow >> reasonably simple steps to purge the content and rebuild the repo. >> >> So, what options do we have at present? > >Have you looked at git-filter-branch in a recent version of git? The >man page has some good examples. Ah, no, though I will do so. It is apparently not in the version I have (1.5.2.4), but it is in 1.5.3.1. We'll give this a shot and complain if we can't handle it. Thank you. Bill