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git filter-branch command to remove all files except those of interest
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removeexcept.sh
# Remove every file except "./somefile.txt" and the directory "./somedir".
# --prune-empty to remove empty commits.
git filter-branch --tree-filter "find . -not -path './.git' -not -path './.git/*' -not -path './somefile.txt' -not -path './somedir/*' -not -path './somedir' -delete" --prune-empty
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