remove-folder-and-its-contents-from-git with all History

[Guy Levkowitz]

Hi All,

I need to remove some folder in one of the git repos, we need to remove all history of this folder , in all branches and all commits.

is there a good procedure to do that 

I have found some links on stackoverflow  - but when try to apply it get lots of error when try to push the change to Gerrit 

Do any of you have done it before ?

BR

Guy

[Matthias Sohn]

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 2:12 PM Guy Levkowitz <sil...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I need to remove some folder in one of the git repos, we need to remove all history of this folder , in all branches and all commits.

is there a good procedure to do that 

I have found some links on stackoverflow  - but when try to apply it get lots of error when try to push the change to Gerrit 

You can rewrite the history of a git repository using git-filter-repo [1]. Though this is pretty intrusive and

would break references from Gerrit metadata which is stored in notedb.

I don't know if there is a tool which can adapt these references to the rewritten history.

Without that I guess you'll face errors whenever you come across such a broken reference.

[1] https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/

Do any of you have done it before ?

BR

Guy

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