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| author | tekkub <tekkub@gmail.com> | 2010-10-23 23:52:01 -0600 |
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| committer | tekkub <tekkub@gmail.com> | 2010-10-23 23:52:01 -0600 |
| commit | 02c3846636307e031e7963ffac8d4b600d2ade94 (patch) | |
| tree | e811c63b6785028f3fb95e304da69fa8e67cb554 /_posts/2009-09-09-removing-sensitive-data.markdown | |
| parent | d7fbe2f1d54cde315eb6222ef1c9f45488081e12 (diff) | |
Update commands to run to purge objects from a filter-branch'd repo
Diffstat (limited to '_posts/2009-09-09-removing-sensitive-data.markdown')
| -rw-r--r-- | _posts/2009-09-09-removing-sensitive-data.markdown | 24 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/_posts/2009-09-09-removing-sensitive-data.markdown b/_posts/2009-09-09-removing-sensitive-data.markdown index f935033..b0bf6f1 100644 --- a/_posts/2009-09-09-removing-sensitive-data.markdown +++ b/_posts/2009-09-09-removing-sensitive-data.markdown @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Now that the password is changed, you want to remove the file from history and a $ cd github-gem/ tekkub@iSenberg ~/tmp/github-gem master - $ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove Rakefile' master + $ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch Rakefile' HEAD Rewrite 48dc599c80e20527ed902928085e7861e6b3cbe6 (266/266) Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten @@ -70,15 +70,23 @@ While `git filter-branch` rewrites the history for you, the objects will remain $ rm -rf .git/refs/original/ tekkub@iSenberg ~/tmp/github-gem master - $ git reflog expire --all + $ git reflog expire --expire=now --all tekkub@iSenberg ~/tmp/github-gem master - $ git gc --aggressive --prune=1.minute - Counting objects: 1746, done. - Delta compression using 2 threads. - Compressing objects: 100% (1736/1736), done. - Writing objects: 100% (1746/1746), done. - Total 1746 (delta 993), reused 0 (delta 0) + $ git gc --prune=now + Counting objects: 2437, done. + Delta compression using up to 4 threads. + Compressing objects: 100% (1378/1378), done. + Writing objects: 100% (2437/2437), done. + Total 2437 (delta 1461), reused 1802 (delta 1048) + + tekkub@iSenberg ~/tmp/github-gem master + $ git gc --aggressive --prune=now + Counting objects: 2437, done. + Delta compression using up to 4 threads. + Compressing objects: 100% (2426/2426), done. + Writing objects: 100% (2437/2437), done. + Total 2437 (delta 1483), reused 0 (delta 0) Note that pushing the branch to a new or empty GitHub repo and then making a fresh clone from GitHub will have the same effect. |