Clean up tree of a project using bzr

[John Arbash Meinel]

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matiyam wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a project where i use bzr for version control.
> 
> When i started it, i added a directory which contains lots of big files that
> now i have realised i don't need them to be versioned.
> 
> I know i can do a "bzr rm directory", but then i guess they would be wasting
> space in the .bzr directory.
> 
> Id there a way of (maybe branching, i don't know) cleaning / creating a new
> branch without this directory, but preserving the history of changes in the
> rest of the tree?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your attention, and for such a useful tool!!
> 
> -- M 

You might look into http://launchpad.net/bzr-rebase written by Jelmer.
Basically, you would want to start over before you added the big files, and
then rebase all of your other changes on top of that.

John
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