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The BFG Repo Cleaner

Randy McDermott edited this page Aug 24, 2016 · 26 revisions

There are generally two reasons why you might need to "clean" your repo:

  • It has grown too large

  • Someone committed sensitive information

The Git functionality to handle these problems is the utility called git-filter-branch. However, unless you are a real expert with Git, git-filter-branch is pretty difficult to use.

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