Remove refs/original/heads/master from git repo after filter-branch --tree-filter?
git, git-plumbing, git-rewrite-history
Solution
`refs/original/*` is there as a backup, in case you mess up your filter-branch. Believe me, it's a really good idea.
Once you've inspected the results, and you're very confident that you have what you want, you can remove the backed up ref:
git update-ref -d refs/original/refs/heads/master
or if you did this to many refs, and you want to wipe it all out:
git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git update-ref -d
(That's taken directly from the filter-branch manpage.)
This doesn't apply to you, but to others who may find this: If you do a filter-branch which removes content taking up significant disk space, you might also want to run `git reflog expire --expire=now --all` and `git gc --prune=now` to expire your reflogs and delete the now-unused objects. (Warning: completely, totally irreversible. Be very sure before you do it.)
Problem
I had the same question as asked here: New git repository in root directory to subsume an exist repository in a sub-directory I followed this answer here: New git repository in root directory to subsume an exist repository in a sub-directory Now, `gitk --all` shows two histories: one culminating in the current `master`, and one named `original/refs/heads/master`. I don't know what this second history is, or how to remove it from the repo. I don't need two histories in my repository. How do I get rid of it? To reproduce yourself: ``` mkdir -p project-root/path/to/module cd project-root/path/to/module mkdir dir1 dir2 dir3 for dir in * ; do touch $dir/source-file-$dir.py ; done git init git add . git commit -m 'Initial commit' ``` Now we have the original poster's problem. Let's move the root of the git repo to project-root using the answer linked above: ``` git filter-branch --tree-filter 'mkdir -p path/to/module ; git mv dir1 dir2 dir3 path/to/module' HEAD rm -rf path cd ../../../ # Now PWD is project-root mv path/to/module/.git . git reset --hard ``` Now, see my current problem: ``` gitk --all & git show-ref ``` How do I get rid of `refs/original/heads/master` and all associated history?