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Rewrite author of entire git repository
In git repositories, commit messages contain a person’s email address as an identifier for the user. If the email address used to commit is wrong, you might not want it to be shown in the git repository anymore. In general … Continue reading
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Tagged env-filter, filter-branch, for-each-ref, git, reflog
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Remove files from git history
When a repository contains files which should have never been committed, it is hard to remove them from the history as git is built to keep a history, not to change it. The following procedure will explain the procedure to … Continue reading
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Tagged filter-branch, for-each-ref, git, index-filter, reflog
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