Remove a file from git history : Random Geekery

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Oops I had .envrc in my Git repo. Fixing it with git-filter-repo.

git clone URL ~/tmp/
cd ~/tmp/REPO
git filter-repo --invert-paths --path .envrc
echo ".envrc" >> .gitignore
git commit -m 'ignore direnv files'
git remote add origin URL
git push origin --force --all

It had zero eyes on it that I know of, but I better delete and refresh any associated tokens just in case. One can be pretty sure there’s scrapers out there specifically looking for silly mistakes like this.

GitHub - newren/git-filter-repo: Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement)

Added to vault 2024-01-24. Updated on 2024-01-26

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