I’m afraid I couldn’t find anything quite like this particular scenario. I have a git repository with a lot of history: 500+ branches, 500+ tags, going back to mid-2007. It contains ~19,500 commits. We’d like to remove all of the history before Jan 1, 2010, to make it smaller and easier to deal with (we … Read more
I accidentally committed an unwanted file (filename.orig while resolving a merge) to my repository several commits ago, without me noticing it until now. I want to completely delete the file from the repository history. Is it possible to rewrite the change history such that filename.orig was never added to the repository in the first place? … Read more
I would like to put a Git project on GitHub but it contains certain files with sensitive data (usernames and passwords, like /config/deploy.rb for capistrano). I know I can add these filenames to .gitignore, but this would not remove their history within Git. I also don’t want to start over again by deleting the /.git … Read more
This question already has answers here: Edit the root commit in Git? (5 answers) Closed 8 years ago. I want to change something in the first commit of my project with out losing all subsequent commits. Is there any way to do this? I accidentally listed my raw email in a comment within the source … Read more
I have a Git repository which contains a number of subdirectories. Now I have found that one of the subdirectories is unrelated to the other and should be detached to a separate repository. How can I do this while keeping the history of the files within the subdirectory? I guess I could make a clone … Read more
I was writing a simple script on the school computer, and committing the changes to Git (in a repo that was in my pen drive, cloned from my computer at home). After several commits, I realized I was committing stuff as the root user. Is there any way to change the author of these commits … Read more
