From b42417a2783d08ada468df81e34e89f5794b0413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jonas=20Bone=CC=81r?= <jonasremove@jonasboner.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 12:44:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added scripts for removing files from git's history

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 scripts/git-remove-history.sh | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/git-remove-history.sh

diff --git a/scripts/git-remove-history.sh b/scripts/git-remove-history.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..9db67d2490
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/git-remove-history.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/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 [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+    exit 0are still
+fi
+ 
+# make sure we're at the root of git repo
+if [ ! -d .git ]; then
+    echo "Error: must run this script from the root of a git repository"
+    exit 1
+fi
+ 
+# remove all paths passed as arguments from the history of the repo
+files=$@
+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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