Remove Files completely from git repository along with its history

Question

I have uploaded a font file that I don't have the rights to distribute to git hub several updates ago.

I have a relatively inactive repository and I have the ability to notify all of my members if necessary. I've tried several of the solutions. I need to delete a file in my directory called Resources\Video\%font%.ttf where %font% is the name of the plain, italicized and bold versions of the font. What commands do I use?

Jaeger

Answer 1

In that case you could to use Git Filter Branch command with --tree-filter option.

syntax is git filter-branch --tree-filter <command> ...

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f Resources\Video\%font%.ttf' -- --all

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Edit Updated

Note that git filter-branch --index-filter is much faster than --tree-filter

git filter-branch --index-filter 'rm -f Resources\Video\%font%.ttf' -- --all

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In windows had to use / instead of \.

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Explanation about the command:

< command > Specify any shell command.

--tree-filter:Git will check each commit out into working directory, run your command, and re-commit.

--index-filter: Git updates git history and not the working directory.

--all: Filter all commits in all branches.

Note: Kindly check the path for your file as I'm not sure for the file path

Hope this help you.

Purpura

Answer 2

According to the official git docs, using git filter-branch is strongly discouraged, and the recommended approach is to use the contributed git-filter-repo command.

Install it (via package, or with package python3-pip, do a pip install: pip install git-filter-repo).

The command to exorcise filename is then:

git filter-repo --invert-paths --path filename

The --invert-paths option indicates to exclude, not include the following paths.

Shapiro

Answer 3

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch Resources\Video\%font%.ttf' HEAD can be much (up to 100x) faster than --tree-filter because it only updates git history and not the working directory.

ref: What is the difference between "--tree-filter" and "--index-filter" in the "git filter-branch"?
ref: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch

Kokaras

Answer 4

Take backup

Inside Working Directory

git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch Resources\Video\%font%.ttf' --prune-empty --tag--name-filter cat -- --all 
git push origin --all --force 

Inside Bare Repo

git gc --prune=now

Chafe

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