BFG Repo-Cleaner is a command-line tool for cleaning unwanted data from Git repository history.
It’s designed for common but painful maintenance jobs such as removing huge blobs, purging leaked credentials, and stripping private files from previous commits. The tool offers a focused alternative to git-filter-branch, with a simpler workflow and strong performance from processing Git objects efficiently and using multi-core JVM execution.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Removes large files and troublesome blobs from Git repository history.
- Deletes files or folders matching specified names or patterns.
- Replaces sensitive text such as passwords and credentials from historical commits.
- Protects the current HEAD commit by default to reduce the risk of breaking the latest project state.
- Updates commits, branches, and tags in mirror clones before standard Git garbage collection removes unwanted objects.
- Runs as a self-contained Java application, with Scala libraries and dependencies folded into the downloadable JAR file.
- Requires Java 11 or above.
Website: github.com/rtyley/bfg-repo-cleaner
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Developer: Roberto Tyley
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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