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ChiliYago
ChiliYago

Reputation: 12289

Deleting Sensitive Data After Push

So I am working on a project and add a gitignore file to prevent some sensitive data from being included only it fails to work as expected and now I have pushed it. Is there a way to delete that from the remote repository so there is no evidence of it in the history?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3189

Answers (2)

Oliver Evans
Oliver Evans

Reputation: 1572

If the sensitive information was introduced before the most recent commit and you would like to remove it from the full tree, I recommend git BFG.

See: https://help.github.com/articles/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository/

If you commit sensitive data, such as a password or SSH key into a Git repository, you can remove it from the history. To entirely remove unwanted files from a repository's history you can use either the git filter-branch command or the BFG Repo-Cleaner.

Also, https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

The BFG is a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data >out of your Git repository history:

  • Removing Crazy Big Files
  • Removing Passwords, Credentials & other Private data

Upvotes: 0

Stephan
Stephan

Reputation: 1657

You could revert the changes locally

git commit --amend

or

git reset <last-hash>

and then do a 

git push -f

but this should only be done

if you:

  1. (know what your doing ;-) )
  2. noone else did something with the repo in the meantime

Tip:

Be very careful, that the repository is in the state you want it to be, before you push -f, because changing history is generally a big no-no for various good reasons

Upvotes: 1

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