The BFG Repo Cleaner

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

• The repo 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. Thankfully, there is an amazing alternative called The BFG Repo-Cleaner by Roberto Tyley.