On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 05:07:39PM -0800, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2025 19:48:06 +0000 (GMT) > Tim Woodall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I want to rewrite git history from the very first commit (which is an > > empty commit) but nothing I can find seems to let me do this other > > than with manual intervention. > > > > This is a one off and doesn't need to be efficient so long as I can > > leave it to get on with it without intervention. > > The built-in way to do this is to use `git filter-branch`. There are > a number of examples on the git-filter-branch man page, and it looks > like a combination of the --tree-filter and --env-filter arguments > would make the modifications you want.
My thought exactly. So far I've used it for far simpler things, like erasing a password (and its memory) from a repo. Cheers -- t
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