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#!/bin/bash | |
set -o errexit | |
# Author: David Underhill | |
# Script to permanently delete files/folders from your git repository. To use | |
# it, cd to your repository's root and then run the script with a list of paths | |
# you want to delete, e.g., git-delete-history path1 path2 | |
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then | |
exit 0 | |
fi | |
# make sure we're at the root of git repo | |
if [ ! -d .git ]; then | |
echo "Error: must run this script from the root of a git repository" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
# remove all paths passed as arguments from the history of the repo | |
files=$@ | |
git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch $files" HEAD | |
# remove the temporary history git-filter-branch otherwise leaves behind for a long time | |
rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all && git gc --aggressive --prune |
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