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authorJacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>2009-02-12 10:01:10 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-02-12 15:44:56 -0800
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Add 'rm -f' equivalent to 'git rm' example of filter-branch --index-filter
Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD
Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD.
+As with using `rm filename`, `git rm --cached filename` will fail
+if the file is absent from the tree of a commit. If it is not important
+whether the file is already absent from the tree, you can use
+`git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename` instead.
+
To rewrite the repository to look as if `foodir/` had been its project
root, and discard all other history: