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Do NOT run these commands unless you want to create immense pain for yourself. It deleted a lot of my original source code files. I assumed it would purge some large files from my commit history in GIT (as per the original question), however, I think this command is designed to permanently purge files from your original source code tree (big difference!). My system: Windows, VS2012, Git Source Control Provider.

Contango
– Contango

2012-10-22 11:16:29 +00:00
Commented Oct 22, 2012 at 11:16
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I used this command: git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached -r --ignore-unmatch oops.iso' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all instead of first one from your code

Kostanos
– Kostanos

2013-06-14 02:31:59 +00:00
Commented Jun 14, 2013 at 2:31
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@mkljun, please at least remove "git push origin master --force"! First of all it is not related to the original question - author didn't ask how to edit commits and push changes to some repository. And second - this is dangerous, you really can delete a lot of files and push changes to remote repository without first check what was deleted is not a good idea.

Ezh
– Ezh

2021-08-21 10:27:51 +00:00
Commented Aug 21, 2021 at 10:27

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