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Created February 7, 2012 19:35
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Remove files from git history
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gistfile1.sh
toRemove='someDirectory/* bigFile.txt'
# Remove every file that matches $toRemove
git filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch $toRemove" --prune-empty -- --all
# Rebuild the history cache (does not seem to remove big file from the git caches... maybe not required)
rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all && git gc --aggressive --prune
# Make a clean clone
cd ..
git clone --no-hardlinks ${REPO} ${REPO}-reduced
# Start using the new clone, remove the old repo
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