从存储库中删除特定文件夹

Question

I have a repo I have cloned locally from TFS that I am about to push to our new VSTS instance.

Folder structure like so;

\A\AA1234\
\A\AA1235\
\A\AA1236\
\A\AAB237\
\A\AAB238\
\A\AAB239\
\B\BA1234\
\B\BA1235\
\B\BAG236\
\B\BAG237\
\B\BAG238\
\C\...
...

What I would like is to remove all projects of the format 2 letters followed by numbers and keep the ones with 3 letters followed by numbers (regex below).

I was using the following command which I found here to remove individual folders;

git filter-branch --force --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch -r FOLDERTOREMOVE" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all 

The problem is this doesn't seem to work for subfolders. I could substitute 'FOLDERTOREMOVE' above with 'A' and it would work (I have tested this with a smaller, test repo). But it appears this command only works with top level folders. I have tried the following to no success;

AA1234
\AA1234
\A\AA1234
A\AA1234

Is there a way to make this command work for subfolders? I can then create a batch file to run for all the folders I would like to remove.

Option 2 would be when it comes to git push -u origin master , to somehow specify not to include a folder list/regex.

Option 3, I used git-tfs to clone from TFS. There is an --ignore-regex command which I tried (below) but it still seemed to pull down everything. I am willing to rerun the clone if I can get this to only pull the folders I need.

git-tfs clone --ignore-regex="\/[a-zA-Z]{1}\/[a-zA-Z]{2}\d" http://tfs:1234/MyTFS "$/MyTFSPath" --branches=none

REGEX

\\.\\[a-zA-Z]{3}.*?\\
\\.\\[a-zA-Z]{2}[^a-zA-Z].*?\\

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Believe I found the issue with the regex not working in my initial clone from TFS. It seems GIT TFS uses a different regex flavour than I was expecting.

While I was using;

git-tfs clone --ignore-regex="\/[a-zA-Z]{1}\/[a-zA-Z]{2}\d" http://tfs:1234/MyTFS "$/MyTFSPath" --branches=none

This should have actually been;

git-tfs clone --ignore-regex="/[a-zA-Z]{1}/[a-zA-Z]{2}\d" http://tfs:1234/MyTFS "$/MyTFSPath" --branches=none

Note that the '/' do not need to be escaped with '\\' as I had expected. From my tests this regex then works to exclude files/folders you don't wish to include in your clone.