how to delete folder from git repo and remove it totally from history

Question

I have this structure in my git repo

  Proj1/Dir1

  proj1/Dir2

  proj1/ Dir3

I want to delete dir1 and dir2 from the repo also from all history.

How can I achieve that?

There's probably no good way to do that for a large or complex repo. One way might be to create a new master/base branch without those directories, then rebase your other branches against it. — isherwood
– isherwood, Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 18:52
Duplicate. Read the very bottom here kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-filter-branch.html — Andrew C
– Andrew C, Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 18:59

voam · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-02 19:01:09Z

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How about this?

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f -r --dry-run  Proj1/Dir1 proj1/Dir2' HEAD

remove the --dry-run part to do it for real.

answered Oct 2, 2014 at 19:01

voam

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