Hello folks, this will be a quick but really handy post. Let's say we are working on a side project that we didn't care the sensitive data like credentials of API keys and we want to make the repo public on Github.
I've found a great tool to clear all the commit history of the specific file, in my case it was .env.example.
The tool is called git-filter-repo and it is developed with python.
So, to use the library, first we need to install the python script using:
pip install git-filter-repo
and then we are running this code to delete all the history of the selected file:
git filter-branch --force --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch <the path of file that you want delete>" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
When you run the code, you will see the remote branch and local are different. Now, you just need to push your local changes with this command:
git push origin --force --all
That's it! Now, when you check the Github, you wont't see any history about that file.
Hope this will help someone having the same issue.
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