On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:53:31 +0000 (UTC) T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I want to permanently delete an old revision (or revisions) > of single file from Git. Specifically, I want to delete from > my public git server repo my initial published version of one > single file, but keep the rest of its revisions. How can I do > that?
Oh, bummer. I believe it's possible and even described in Pro Git Book. The tool is caled filter-branch and it's kind of a nuke: http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-4.html#The-Nuclear-Option:-filter-branch However, since git uses sha1 of previous object as references to them, any change in any (older than the last) revision is going to have to rebuild all future revisions. Provided that your file is soon enough in the history, you are basically going to rebuild your whole repo! If more people have cloned your repo, their current clones including all their local commits are going to be basically lost. Unless you can 100% ensure that all of them commit, push and *delete* the clones (or export their commits separately as patches) BEFORE you even start rewriting the original, I'd think about creating a copy of it, and pushing it to the server as a *new* repo. Then you can explain people that they need to export their commits (anyway) and commit them again against the new one. In any way, you're probably not going to avoid some kind of a very ugly mess. Good luck, you'll need it. aL. -- Alois Mahdal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130228041542.5f216...@hugo.daonet.home
