Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have a local git repository that I eventually plan on publishing as open source. I recently noticed that one of the files has a password in it. Obviously, I need to strike that password from the entire history before I publish the repository.
A: Is there a way to access and modify the history for all revisions to that particular file?
B: I guess one alternative is to simply publish a clean version of the HEAD.
This should remove the file from all revisions.
Source: http://help.github.com/removing-sensitive-data/
Though if you are really worried, just upload a new, clean repo without the file.