# Help before pushing to remote repo. 2 messages from 2008-06-06 to 2008-06-06. Participants: Ralph Churchill, Eric Raible. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13841 ## Ralph Churchill, 2008-06-06 23:13 Subject: Help before pushing to remote repo. Message-ID: <351720.25873.qm@web30503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/351720.25873.qm%40web30503.mail.mud.yahoo.com ``` 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. ``` ## Eric Raible, 2008-06-06 23:28 Subject: Re: Help before pushing to remote repo. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20080606T232618-691%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <351720.25873.qm@web30503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ``` Ralph Churchill 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 ```