From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:28:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Help before pushing to remote repo.
Message-ID: <loom.20080606T232618-691@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <351720.25873.qm@web30503.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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