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---
title: "Rewrite a git commit history"
date: 2018-03-05
description: How to rewrite a git commit history
tags:
- git
---
## git filter-branch
Here is how to rewrite a git commit history, for example to remove a file :
```sh
git filter-branch index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch ${file}" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat - -all
```