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GitDirStat – a git maintenance gui

René Link
December 28, 2014June 9, 2016
Git

Some time ago I wrote the blog “Remove directories and files permanently from git“. Removing files from a git history is not an unusual task and I thought that it would be nice if there is an easier and faster way to do it. I thought that there should be a gui that help you to find big files in the history and that let you select the files you want to remove with just a click of a button. Therefore I started the GitDirStat project on github and developed a java swing application based on the JGIT library provided by the eclipse community. The name was derived from the popular WinDirStat application or… Read More »GitDirStat – a git maintenance gui

Remove directories and files permanently from git

René Link
July 17, 2014May 5, 2020
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Git

Some day you might want to remove files or directories from git permanently, because someone committed sensitive data or large binary files that should not reside in the repository to keep clone times short. In this blog I want to show you how to delete directories and files permanently from a git repository. The first chapter is a short answer and is intended for those of you who only want to quickly remove files and don’t want to undestand it in-depth. The section chapter dives into the depth of git and gives you links to other resources to understand how files are managed in git and thus can be removed. The short answer… Read More »Remove directories and files permanently from git