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Created February 23, 2018 18:27
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permanently-remove-files-from-repo.sh
#!/bin/bash
# wanted to remove "doc" directory and all of it's contents
git filter-branch -f --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch -r -f doc'
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