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  1. First Go to below website link:

https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

  1. Download the bfg.jar file.
  2. Place this file where repo has leaked secrets.
  3. Execute below command with filename which contain leaked secrets
java -jar bfg-1.14.0.jar .git --delete-files *terraform.tfstate.backup*
  1. After executing above command, create any empty file to commit new changes in the history to repo.
  2. This will re-write the history and there won't be any leaked secret keys in the history

Tips:

https://medium.com/@vs28031996/remove-git-history-with-bfg-repo-cleaner-866808826eea
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49580624/correct-usage-of-bfg-repo-cleaner

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