From b783091a83ed8538efbe8081ea86e4c75e73cdc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmwjQzWgiD7_I3zw-_91rMRf_6qoThupis" Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:43:39 +0000 Subject: --- doc/tips/How_To_Permanently_Delete_a_File__63__.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/tips/How_To_Permanently_Delete_a_File__63__.mdwn (limited to 'doc/tips') diff --git a/doc/tips/How_To_Permanently_Delete_a_File__63__.mdwn b/doc/tips/How_To_Permanently_Delete_a_File__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fd654079f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/How_To_Permanently_Delete_a_File__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Hi, + +We have several large git annex repos where all of the files are on remotes and we want to got through and clean up the repositories by deleting some subset of files. + +What is the fastest way to permanently delete files from a git annex repository with remotes? + +I guess I can to ``git annex drop --numcopies=0 ; git rm ``. Does that actually delete the file permanently? + +Is there a faster way? + +Thanks, + +Mike -- cgit v1.2.3