filter-branch Archives - Experiencing Technology https://blog.tinned-software.net/tag/filter-branch/ Tinned-Software Blog Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:54:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Rewrite author of entire git repository https://blog.tinned-software.net/rewrite-author-of-entire-git-repository/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:54:48 +0000 https://blog.tinned-software.net/?p=2584 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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Remove files from git history https://blog.tinned-software.net/remove-files-from-git-history/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:23:23 +0000 https://blog.tinned-software.net/?p=2578 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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