bin/git-obliterate

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # Usage: git-obliterate <file>
   3 # Rewrite repo history to completely remove all traces of a given file/directory.
   4
   5 file="$1"
   6 test -z "$file" && echo "file required." 1>&2 && exit 1
   7 git filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm -r --cached '$file' --ignore-unmatch" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all