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Created November 18, 2011 01:35
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Remove a password from Git's history
# Sync with the remote master
git pull
# Force your clone to look like HEAD
git reset --hard
# AGAIN, A WARNING: This can really break stuff!
# Run your filter branch command, replacing all instances of "password" with "your_password"
# The example looks for Ruby files ("*.rb"), you can change this to match your needs
git filter-branch --tree-filter 'git ls-files -z "*.rb" |xargs -0 perl -p -i -e "s#(password)#your_password#g"' -- --all
# Overwrite your master with local changes
git push origin master --force
@plantpurecode
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This is a godsend. Thank you so much for putting this up! :)

@JosephGaiser
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Still useful all these years later 👍

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