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    copied!<p>I recently have cloned an SVN repository which used to have a few binaries in it, which are not needed any longer. Unfortunately, I have already pushed it to Github with the binaries inlcuded. I now want to remove these using 'git filter-branch' but I am facing some problems when it comes to tags and branches.</p> <p>Basically, I have created a simple shell script to remove a list of files which have been determined by the following command:</p> <pre><code>git rev-list --objects --all | grep .jar &gt; files.txt </code></pre> <p>The script for removal looks like the following:</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/sh while read file_hash file_to_remove do echo "Removing "$file_to_remove; git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch $file_to_remove" rm -rf .git/refs/original/; git reflog expire --all --expire-unreachable=0; git repack -A -d; git prune done &lt; $1 </code></pre> <p>I have a few tags (all listed in .git/packed-refs), one .git/refs/remotes/origin (pointing to the Github repo). The removal of the files using the above script does not have the wanted effect ('du -cm' remains to output the same size; 'git rev-list' still listing the files) until I manually remove all references from .git/packed-refs and the .git/refs/remotes/origin directory.</p> <p>Naturally, I am losing all tags as well as the possibility to push my local changes back to Github with this approach. Is there anything I have missed or is there an alternative way for removing files from all branches/tags without destroying my history?</p> <p>Many thanks in advance, Matthes</p>
 

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