Subject: Re: SVN -> Git *but* with special changes

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:44:24 +0200

Stephen Bash <[email-masked]> writes:

>> 2. Keeping binary files in version control isn't a big deal because
>> the whole repo doesn't get copied to everyone's system or use up 
>> people's GitHub storage space.
>
> I'd eliminate these on the SVN side before converting to Git. If you
> have svnadmin access to the SVN repo svnadmin dump, svndumpfilter,
> svnadmin load is a pretty easy process.

Otherwise, you can do it on the Git side with:

  git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f some-large-blob'

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Matthieu Moy
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