From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:42:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Removing some files from history
Message-ID: <20081017104243.GA15848@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <96ed5eac0810170338s292fe858s1c092428a44a7ad2@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:38:54PM +0400, Gennady Kushnir wrote:

> I'm going to make my repository public, but I have found that one of
> my files contains some private data that I would not like to share.
> Is it possible to remove that file from all commits in my local
> repository history before publishing it?

Yes, see "git help filter-branch". The first example given does exactly
what you are asking for.

-Peff