NAME

       git-annex-forget - prune git-annex branch history

SYNOPSIS

       git annex forget

DESCRIPTION

       Causes the git-annex branch to be rewritten, throwing away historical data about past locations of files.
       The  resulting branch will use less space, but git annex log will not be able to show where files used to
       be located.

       When this rewritten branch is merged into other clones of the repository,  git-annex  will  automatically
       perform  the  same  rewriting  to their local git-annex branches. So the forgetfulness will automatically
       propagate out from its starting point until all repositories running git-annex have forgotten  their  old
       history. (You may need to force git to push the branch to any git repositories not running git-annex.)

OPTIONS

       --drop-dead

              Also prune references to repositories that have been marked as dead.

       Also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.

SEE ALSO

       git-annex(1)

       git-annex-dead(1)

       git-annex-filter-branch(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

                                                                                             git-annex-forget(1)