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Completely remove A File from GIT History
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Completely remove a file from Git history permalink

To remove the file altogether, we can use the following command. Assuming .env is the file to remove

git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch .env" HEAD You will get some warnings about this messing up your history as this goes through your whole history and 100% removes its occurrence.

To push this, you have to run the following command.

git push --force If we look at our history, we can still see the commits that include this .env file, but the content is empty.

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