35 lines
1.3 KiB
Bash
Executable file
35 lines
1.3 KiB
Bash
Executable file
#!/bin/bash
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cat <<'EOT'
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@ This command rewrites GIT history like git-rebase. Beware never to rewrite @
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@ trees which are already published, as that would deeply upset all cloning @
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@ repos. For more details see 'git help rebase'. Tread carefully! @
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EOT
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read -p "I know what I am doing: " answer
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test "$answer" = yes || exit 1
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set -o errexit
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# Author: David Underhill
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# Script to permanently delete files/folders from your git repository. To use
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# it, cd to your repository's root and then run the script with a list of paths
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# you want to delete, e.g., git-delete-history path1 path2
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if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
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exit 0
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fi
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# make sure we're at the root of git repo
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if [ ! -d .git ]; then
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echo "Error: must run this script from the root of a git repository"
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exit 1
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fi
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# remove all paths passed as arguments from the history of the repo
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files=$@
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git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch $files" HEAD
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# remove the temporary history git-filter-branch otherwise leaves behind for a long time
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rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all && git gc --aggressive --prune
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