Removing sensitive information from git history

This video demonstrates how to remove a file with sensitive information from git history in less than 7 minutes.

[po]

The Shakira reference caught me off guards.

[hokwanhung]

Well-explained video with clear instructions. I have difficulties using the newest git-filter-repo, and this helps me save much time. Thanks!

[troymitchel]

It is ridiculous of how much effort it takes to do this.

[fernandohernandezmena]

this ruins your PRs because the root of the updated branch differs from the main's root

[musicotensai]

What if I want to keep the file but just replace the secret with an encrypted value?

[spongedudeZ]

This worked for me! Was able to delete my secret keys from my git history. Thanks!

[maxinitin]

Great video. Will this works for merge request too? The issue we’re running into is that GitLab merge requests are read-only and therefore can’t be updated, so the push to the merge request refs is rejected, meaning secrets persist in the merge requests.

[aMadGecko]

Great video, very easy to follow and works :D

[morplul]

Thank you. Now I can fix my stupidity.

[igorluizlampa]

Thank you very much!! It works perfectly!

[atrikashow]

Thank you so much
this video helped me a lot sir

[ekkogaming]

why does it keep telling me bad revision "rm", I double checked the spaces and everything.

[demeja]

Man, thank you so much for this video:)

[jean-sebastiendesmarais]

Does this matter for local-only git repo? If I eventually push it to Github I want to make sure my file is not included in the history (my config file was not in my gitignore initially).

[brahmcdude]

how can i remove an image that i uploaded to github?

[coltonpiper]

My commits don't lie is so bad hahaha.

[ekkogaming]

why does it keep telling me bad revision "rm", I double checked the spaces and everything