Git Clear your History
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Clear History
have you ever checked in some binarys, confidential stuff or something else by mistake ? Git will keep all your history, that’s their design and purpose.
how ever, if you need to cleanup once, here is a short tutorial.
Kill Git Config
cd myrepo
cat .git/config -> note down the url
url=$(git config --get remote.origin.url)
rm -rf .git
Create New Repo
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Removed history, ..."
Push Remote
git remote add origin git@host/yourrepo <- URL you noted down above
git remote add origin $url
git push -u --force origin master
All in One
_url=$(git remote -v |awk '/fetch/ { print $2 }')
rm -rf .git
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Removed history ..."
git remote add origin ${_url}
git push -u --force origin main
unset _url
and you’re done :)
Reset Repo
you may wanna reset your local repo fetch from origin ? and clean local, untracked filed ?
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/main
git clean -d -f
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