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Remove an entire directory from git history
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| git filter-branch --tree-filter "rm -rf FOLDER_NAME" --prune-empty HEAD | |
| git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git update-ref -d | |
| git gc | |
| git push origin master --force |
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