I pushed a file which contains some password on my git repository. How can I remove it? Because I removed it in the latest version (git rm) but it's still accessible using previous commits.
There is a solution about that?
Thanks.
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How many commits happened after the problematic one? – bereal Oct 21 '13 at 06:50
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I think you can't, you can `reset` the commit but then your history will be messed up. – Ashish Gaur Oct 21 '13 at 06:50
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About one hundred commits after the problematic one. In fact, the repo was private at start and I made it public yersteday, today I remembered that one file contains some passwords. – Vadorequest Oct 21 '13 at 09:37
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GitHub has a good article about that. It's not GitHub specific, and will work with any git repository.
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I'm trying it, take a loooong time, I hope I will not destroy my repo ^^ – Vadorequest Oct 21 '13 at 09:38
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git filter-branch --force --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename.txt" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all – Vadorequest Oct 21 '13 at 10:03