revision-history

I have a 2 year old repository that started off as essentially a private repository, so it contained in it's history at different points: key files, encryption keys, large sets of images in various places, etc etc, in the history of the repository, all of which are no longer tracked but still exist in the history. The source is now becoming shared, since we're bringing on new developers, and I want to make a clean start with a mostly clean repository. However, during this transitional period, I may have to deal with the old repository as well, sharing patches/commits between the two

In Mercurial, I'm wanting to build a changelog of all commit messages for revisions my stable branch. Currently, I'm using: hg log -r <oldid>::<newid> where is the revision id of the changeset from the last time we pushed out code, and is stable 's tip. This works great for code changes that are only on the stable branch, but if I'm merging another branch (such as a new major version which had its own development branch), all those commit messages are omitted! Instead I only get the 1 commit from where it merged into stable . I would like some way (preferably w/ hg log ) to see these as well.

Using the git flow tool, I created a feature branch (branched off dev ), made a bunch of changes, and merged the branch back onto dev . There is a file which I have modified in the feature branch. I can confirm that the revision (let's call it REV-A ) that modifies the file ( FILE-A ) is present and applied in the feature branch. However, after the merge, FILE-A is in its original (pre-merge) state on the dev branch. I can see REV-A when I do git log on dev , and if I follow the lines produced by git log --graph , I can trace this commit forward to the merge commit where I merged my feature

How can I clone a git repository without getting the actual files and all their revision deltas? I only want to be able to do git log | grep , no need to access files' contents. I would like to skip this part of the cloning: Receiving objects: 12% (359112/2981072), 432.66 MiB | 1.67 MiB/s There are some repositories whose logs I want to grep, but without downloading/checking out the whole repository, because they weigh gigabytes. Even a solution where I only get a single branch's logs (e.g. master) interests me, if that helps. Essentially I'm looking for something like svn log <repo url> for

Hello I have successfully rewrote history and got the 5 folders I wanted to extract using git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --tree-filter 'rm -rf <all unwanted dirs>' and kept all git history. The only remaining issue are submodules, I sill have commits doing Subproject commit <hash> and I want to completely remove ALL of those submodule commits from my git history, how can I accomplish this? I have done it with git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --tree-filter ' git submodule deinit -f . git rm -rf lib && rm -rf lib find . -name .gitmodules -delete' HEAD Assuming that all of my submodules

My company has a policy about keeping source code encrypted on local developer machines. Where does IntelliJ IDEA keep the copy of the code changes that is used to drive its local history feature ? They are stored in ${System}/LocalHistory . See this IDEA document for the location of the IntelliJ IDEA System directory on various platforms. As a side note, if you want to turn local history off, you can do so in the maintenance registry. On windows, you can access it via Ctrl + Alt + Shift + / . Select "Registry" from the popup. In the registry dialog, find the entry localHistory.daysToKeep and