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Re: Help before pushing to remote repo.

From
EREric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2008, 23:28 UTC
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Ralph Churchill <mrchucho <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> I have a file that contains a "secret" key value. I unwittingly committed two
commits to my local repository
> that contained the value. Is there anything I can do to prevent the value from
making it to the version(s)
> visible in the remote repository? I don't know if I can "edit" the commits or
change the history of the file.
> 
> I'm using github for the remote repo. and am, obviously, very new to Git.
Assuming that you haven't yet pushed it to the remote repository...

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#fixing-a-mistake-by-rewriting-history http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#undoing-a-merge

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  1. Ralph ChurchillJun 6, 2008
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