Re: Selectively commit/publish files to GIT

On Friday, November 08, 2013 at 05:52 EST,
     Thomas Manson [off-list ref] wrote:

[...]

  How can I search git history for big files and remove them, or mark
them to be not published ?

I've tryed this solution found on the link in the error:

git filter-branch --force --index-filter   'git rm --cached
--ignore-unmatch giant_file'   --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat --
--all
git commit --amend -CHEAD

[...]

here is the error I have using the GitHub application on Mac :
(after that I intend to use Eclipse)

File Ressources/dwr/dwr-3.0.0.110.dev-src.zip is 67.69 MB; this is
larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50 MB
GH001: Large files detected.
Trace: 8f0259b29260f0c4d7ae4d4ae70e0306
See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information.
File .bzr/repository/packs/a7bcd6ba235114ab88c80fe8a97adcfa.pack is
178.76 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100 MB

Did you actually replace the 'giant_file' placeholder with the path to
*your* giant file? The error message indicates that you didn't, or that
something else went wrong during the filtering.

You can use 'git log' to look for commits touching particular pathnames,
making it easy to verify that a file has been eradicated.

git log --all -- path/to/big-honking-file.zip

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Magnus Bäck
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