ambud · February 10, 2018 22:09
diff --git a/remove.sh b/remove.sh
 # Make a fresh clone of YOUR_REPO
 git clone YOUR_REPO
 cd YOUR_REPO

 # Create tracking branches of all branches
 for remote in `git branch -r | grep -v /HEAD`; do git checkout --track $remote ; done

 # Remove DIRECTORY_NAME from all commits, then remove the refs to the old commits
 # (repeat these two commands for as many directories that you want to remove)
 git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch DIRECTORY_NAME/' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
 git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git update-ref -d

 # Ensure all old refs are fully removed
 rm -Rf .git/logs .git/refs/original

 # Perform a garbage collection to remove commits with no refs
 git gc --prune=all --aggressive

 # Force push all branches to overwrite their history
 # (use with caution!)
 git push origin --all --force
 git push origin --tags --force