Completely purging sensitive files from a git repo
Completely purging sensitive files from a git repo
Say for instance you want to open source a private repo with files containing sensitive information. You can effectively purge a file from a git repo as well as all history by running
Remember to do this for each branch in your repo. Then do:
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Michael Erasmus
Michael has been developing software for over 9 years. He has been a C# programmer for quite a few of them, but has luckily been enlightened enough to become a open source zealot the last few years.
The most loved tools in his utility belt are Ruby and Rails, Linux, MongoDB, Vim, jQuery and Coffeescript.
He's interested in all manner of science and technology, but tends to dwell on things like elegant and eccentric programming languages, machine learning and statistics, web development, internet startups and civic hacking.
When he's not sitting in front of the computer he likes pulling faces to amuse his baby son, apologising to his wonderful wife for sitting in front of computer all day or arguing endlessly with friends, family, colleagues and random strangers.
He lives next to the beach in Muizenberg, Cape Town and loves it.