[Sugar-devel] karma repo is huge!

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 08:11 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to remove select files from the index that are no
> longer in the working tree?

I never used it, but try git-filter-branch should do the job:

   git filter-branch --tree-filter ´rm filename´ HEAD

It's very powerful, read the man page for more info.

NOTE WELL: removing one file in the middle of the history is guaranteed
to alter the sha1's of all the subsequent commits. This happens because
of git's fundamental design, and can be seen as a security feature to
prevent people from tampering with the history.

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