How to delete a file from a range of commits if it was created in an earlier commit?

[xlexle]

Hello,

It took me a while to realize that my attempts to delete a file from a specified range of --refs was not working because the file was created earlier. Example command:

git-filter-repo --invert-paths --path FILE --force --refs HEAD~5..

This deletes FILE only if FILE was created in the last 5 commits. If the file was created in HEAD~6, git-filter-repo happily processes all of the last 5 commits without any notification that FILE was not deleted. I don't know if this should be a bug report or if this is intended behavior.

My question is, how do I go about deleting FILE from the range HEAD~5..HEAD if FILE was created in HEAD~6 or earlier?