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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removing content from git history
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:02:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071009210235.GB9633@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18187.60305.613904.547916@lisa.zopyra.com>

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.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-09 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-21 16:45 removing content from git history Michael Hendricks
2007-02-21 16:56 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-21 17:17   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-02-21 18:02     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 21:00       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-21 21:11         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 21:21           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-09 20:58             ` Bill Lear
2007-10-09 21:02               ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-10-09 22:25                 ` Bill Lear
2007-10-10 14:41               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-21 17:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:02   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-21 18:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:39       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-21 18:30   ` Michael Hendricks
2007-02-21 18:37     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-21 18:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-21 18:52     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-21 19:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-21 19:33     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-21 20:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-21 20:49         ` Nicolas Pitre

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