git rewrite history - BFG remove multiple folders

Question

I found that BFG is much faster than the original git-filter-branch.

We have multiple svn repo to move to even more git repositories, this implies some repository folder merges and splits. During the process I need to remove a set of root folders and I'd like to remove those to the whole history.

I tried to use the BFG --delete-folders and it works fine for one single folder but I did not find a way to delete multiple folders. Is it even possible ? or shall I loop to call BFG as many times as I have folders to remove ?

Thanks for any help.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21630980/bfg-remove-multiple-folders

Answer 1

The argument to --delete-folders is a glob expression, so you should be able to just comma-separate the folder names, like this:

$ bfg --delete-folders "{folderA,folderB,folderC}" my-repo.git

Good luck!

Full disclosure: I'm the author of the BFG Repo-Cleaner.