How to delete a specific revision of a github gist?

Question

I created a Gist on GitHub and I saw informations I don\'t want anyone to see. I updated the file since, but everybody can still access the old revision of the file.

Answer 1

If you are not concerned about showing any of the revisions on the gist, you can do the following to eliminate all history and just show one revision.

git clone some-gist-repo
cd some-gist-repo
git rebase -i --root $tip

You would be able to see all the commits for that gist in your editor. Just pick the first one and replace everything else with s or squash. Once done, save and add a commit message and then do a force push to master like this and you are good.

git push -f origin master

The only revision that would be visible is the addition of file(s) and thats it.