Git history cleanup doesn't seem to have an effect

Question

Hi,

i ran the following 2 commands to clean up .pbxuser and .mode1v3 files from my git repository, but afterwards when i e.g. fire up gitx i can still see them in the history.

git filter-branch --tree-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch *.pbxuser" HEAD
rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all && git gc --aggressive --prune

What did i misunderstand here? The commands seem to do the job but why is gitx still viewing the diffs in its history?

Regards, Erik

Answer 1

Try to clone your cleaned repository, and see if gitx still view the diff in that (cloned repo) history.
(see "Remove a directory permanently from git")