Re: ignored files stilll listed in git ls-files

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:03PM +0800, David Shen wrote:

But my problem is only solved on Linux. On my winodws machine, I have
added a lot of unwanted file to my git repo, before creating
.gitignore file. I ran 'git rm --cached myfile' to remove it from the
index. But they still exist in 'git ls-files', because they exist in
the history. On Linux, I can use 'git filter-branch' to remove them
from history. But, on windows,

I think filter-branch runs under cygwin (I think it might even run on
msysgit, but just hasn't been included in a shipped version yet). You
can also filter-branch on Linux and then fetch or clone the result to
Windows.

-Peff