💻 Git Quick Ref.

Just enough to be dangerous

• echo $PWD

  Current dir the project dir? Great. Continue..

  No? Then cd ~/.sources/projectdirectory. See Bash prompt links below

• git add .

  Or: git add example1.sh

• git commit -m "commit message"

• git pull

• git push -u origin

This won’t remove it from clones or forks, but at least the repo will be scrubbed

• BFG Repo-Cleaner linked below

• vim ~/.bashrc

  ++ alias bfg='java -jar ~/.sources/bfg-1.14.0.jar'
  

• source ~/.bashrc

  bgf via new Bash prompts

• echo "sensitive_data_to_be_removed" >> ~/passwords.txt

  OR: echo -en "data1\ndata2\ndata3" >> ~/passwords.txt

• cd ~/.sources/gitrepo

  This will obviously work better in the repo directory

• bfg --replace-text ~/passwords.txt

  Crucial step to clear repo history of that data

• git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive

  bfg should prompt you to issue the the above command

• git push --force

  That should do it. Good luck!

• Git: Bash Prompt

• Easy Bash PS1 (Prompt) Generator

• Github Docs: Removing sensitive data from a repository

• BFG Repo-Cleaner