removing file from git history doesn't work

问题:

I'm trying to remove a file which has sensitive data using this GitHub procedure.

However, this doesn't work for my specific repo. When I run:

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch some_file.json' \   --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all 

It completes with:

Rewrite 73f9cce9ab282cec272022314f361c1cd48955a7 (418/418)   WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged      WARNING: Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/blah' is unchanged     WARNING: Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/blah2' is unchanged      WARNING: Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/blah3' is unchanged      WARNING: Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/blah4' is unchanged      WARNING: Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master' is unchanged 

But nothing has changed. When I do

git push origin master --force  

it says

Everything up-to-date

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

回答1:

Per discussion in comments, use the complete path of the file. The current version of the command is excising some_file.json in the top level repo directory.

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