BFG Repo-Cleaner The BFG is a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history: Removing Crazy Big Files Removing Passwords, Credentials & other Private data The git-filter-branch command is enormously powerful and can do things that the BFG can't - but the BFG is much better for the tasks above, because: Faster : 10 - 720x faster Simpler : The BFG isn't particularily clever, but is focused on making the above tasks easy Beautiful : If you need to, you can use the beautiful Scala language to customise the BFG. Which has got to be better than Bash scripting at least some of the time. Links rtyley GitHub Using BFG Repo Cleaner tool to remove sensitive files from your git repo IBM git-filter-branch details on git-scm.com
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