I want to remove any files or directories that match the following patterns:
**/.*
**/__*
I tried the following commands:
find . -path './.git' -prune -o -name '.*' ! -name '.' -exec git rm --cached {} +
find . -path './.git' -prune -o -name '__*' ! -name '.' -exec git rm --cached {} +
For example, the specific patterns I want to remove include:
**/.venv/
**/.vscode/
**/.idea/
**__pycache__/
**__temp__/
**.trash_bin/
**.gitignore
**.git.sh
**/.git/
**/.env/
What is the command to delete all previous commits in the repository?
Make a backup. Do a fresh clone of your repository. Put the list of patterns to remove into a file, say "patterns", and prepend every line with glob: so the file should looks like this:
glob:**/.venv/
glob:**__pycache__/
glob:**__temp__/
cd into the fresh clone and run the command
git filter-repo --invert-paths --paths-from-file ../patterns
Path to the file could be relative, git filter-repo doesn't change its current directory.