Git filter-repo with --invert-paths flag doesn't work

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I try to remove files from git history.

I am using git filter-repo whose github repository is https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo, but have some troubles.

As the example says here,
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/blob/docs/html/git-filter-repo.html#EXAMPLES\ and
https://marcofranssen.nl/remove-files-from-git-history-using-git-filter-repo/

I have tried these commands to remove .pyc files with --force flag:

sudo git filter-repo --path-glob '*/*.pyc' --invert-paths
sudo git filter-repo --path-glob '*.pyc' --invert-paths
sudo git filter-repo --path *.pyc --invert-paths

but nothing has effect.

The output of the command seems good but when I check the .pyc files, they all still exists.

Output:

Parsed 28 commits
New history written in 0.46 seconds; now repacking/cleaning... 
Repacking your repo and cleaning out old unneeded objects
HEAD is now at 1bc0b68 Re-add templates directory
Enumerating objects: 1084, done.
Counting objects: 100% (1084/1084), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (267/267), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1084/1084), done.
Total 1084 (delta 784), reused 1084 (delta 784), pack-reused 0
Completely finished after 1.33 seconds.

As it seems everything looks like going well but the files are not removed on git. The files are perfectly preserved and nothing becomes different.

Anybody knows the problem?

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2 Answers

Not knowing the reason but the problem is resolved. But still don't know why it happens.

When I try the commands above, everything seems go well but the files were not removed.

They were not removed from working tree, and even there was no change on commits or index(stage).
It means when I try

git diff
git diff HEAD
git diff --cached HEAD

No change was detected.

But when I push the branch and clone it in other directory again,
the *.pyc files seems to be removed.

I don't know the reason but it seems commit histories had been changed but it doesn't effect to local working tree and git diff didn't catch the changes.

I will check it more and update this answer if I find something.

Addition: also git status didn't show the *.pyc files as not tracking or modified.

I might find the point.
It was a stupid question.

git status and git add didn't show anything because of the .gitignore. Thanks and sorry to all who spent his/her time for this problem.

I will not remove this question even though it was a stupid question for whom who might do the same mistake with me.

user_158013780

My mistake was putting the wrong path. I used "C:\RepoDir\DirectoryToBeRemoved" (note the backslashes), but should have used just "DirectoryToBeRemoved/"

user_88621520
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