Question

I have a repo on GitHub that I want to open source. Before I do, I want to fork the private project, remove my secret API keys from the app, and then release the fork as open source.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

Use the git filter-branch command to rewrite history.

$ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch Rakefile' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all