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rtyley / bfg-repo-cleaner

Removes large or troublesome blobs like git-filter-branch does, but faster. And written in Scala
https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Is there any way to wind back a clean? #262

Closed russelljjarvis closed 6 years ago

russelljjarvis commented 6 years ago

Can I convert files like: setup.py.REMOVED.git-id back to setup.py etc?

javabrett commented 6 years ago

Do you have an unmodified clone of the repo somewhere?

Do you want to revert back to a pre-clean state and clean-again with different options, or do you just want to recover the latest revision of setup.py?

russelljjarvis commented 6 years ago

Although I have a relatively unmodified clone elsewhere, it was not as up to date as I previously thought.

Yes I want to try to achieve a pre-clean state. I understand that the HEAD or the most recent branch is supposed to be protected, however files ending in the suffix REMOVED.git-id actually appear in the head too.

javabrett commented 6 years ago

Step one of the instructions is $ git clone --mirror git://example.com/some-big-repo.git ... so either you didn't do this, or have since pushed-back to this repo?

If you haven't run git gc yet then chances are your old branch-heads are there in-tact, but it will take a fair bit of doing if you have a lot of branches and/or tags.

russelljjarvis commented 6 years ago

I have recovered from the state thanks for the help and the good tool.