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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 2"""
date="2016-10-04T15:17:49Z"
content="""
The answer to this question depends on how quickly you need to get rid of
the files, and whether you want git-annex to generally keep the content of
deleted and old versions of modified files or not.
If you only want git-annex to keep the content of files that are present in
the current branches and tags, then simply delete a file and commit will
work. Later using `git annex unused` to finish getting rid of the content
of deleted files that are not used by any branches/tags.
If you want to keep the full history in general, but drop the content of
specific files, then you need to use git-annex to drop the content before
you delete the file. You can use `git annex whereis $file` to see everywhere that
the content has gotten to, and then `git annex drop $file --from` each location
(and from the local repository).
If you need to immediately get rid of the content of some file, you can use
the same procedure to check where it is and drop it from those locations.
You don't need to filter old commits out of branches to use `git annex
unused`; it only looks at the most recent commit in each branch, so once a
file has been deleted from all branches it will be identified as unused.
"""]]