Removing file history from repository

[Enrique Ramirez]

Ah ok, I was afraid it was a longshot. I'll try to be more careful in
the future with my adds.

Thanks :D

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Enrique Ramirez Irizarry
Lead Developer
Indie Code Labs
http://www.indiecodelabs.com



On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:19:50AM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> Enrique Ramirez wrote:
>> > Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to remove all the versioning
>> > information of a file in the repository. It seems that by mistake I've
>> > been versioning some temporary binary files that can get pretty big
>> > (well in relation to the rest of the repository, anyway). I did a bzr
>> > remove on them already, but I'm guessing the older revisions would
>> > still have the tracking information on these files. Tried checking bzr
>> > help remove but I didn't see any mention of this possibility.
>
>> > // --------------------------------------
>> > Enrique Ramirez Irizarry
>> > Lead Developer
>> > Indie Code Labs
>> > http://www.indiecodelabs.com
>> It is not directly possible to change the committed history of a branch.
>> (in your case that is going back and saying that these files really
>> shouldn't be there).
>
>> It *should* be possible to create a new branch with completely new
>> history that is very similar to your existing branch, but doesn't have
>> those files. This would be done using the "bzr-rebase" plugin. Though
>> I'll admit I'm not 100% sure if it supports rebasing/replay with a file
>> filter. (It should be possible, but I don't know that it has been
>> implemented. Another possibility would be to "bzr fast-export" the
>> history, edit that stream, and then "bzr fast-import" it.)
> FWIW, bzr-rebase can't do this yet.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
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