Permanently delete stuff

use this script from here: http://dound.com/2009/04/git-forever-remove-files-or-folders-from-history/
set -o errexit if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then exit 0 fi if [ ! -d .git ]; then echo "Error: must run this script from the root of a git repository" exit 1 fi files=$@ git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch $files" HEAD rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all && git gc --aggressive --prune
 * 1) !/bin/bash
 * 1) Author: David Underhill
 * 2) Script to permanently delete files/folders from your git repository.  To use
 * it, cd to your repository's root and then run the script with a list of paths
 * 1) you want to delete, e.g., git-delete-history path1 path2
 * 1) make sure we're at the root of git repo
 * 1) remove all paths passed as arguments from the history of the repo
 * 1) remove the temporary history git-filter-branch otherwise leaves behind for a long time

this is what I did
../git-remove-history CVSROOT/

push it to the server
git push --mirror --dry-run git push --mirror