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Clear Commit History and Pull Upstream.md

Clear Commit History:

  • Remove the history
rm -rf .git
  • Recreate the repos from the current content only
git init -b main
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
  • Push to the github remote repos ensuring you overwrite history
git remote add origin git@github.com:revisitable/<repo>.git
git push -u --force origin main

Pull Upstream:

  • Fetch Upstream
git fetch upstream
  • Check out main
git checkout main
  • Merge changes
git merge upstream/main
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