www/content/blog/commands/git-rewrite-commit-history.md

title	date	description	tags
Rewrite a git commit history	2018-03-05	How to rewrite a git commit history	git

git filter-branch

Here is how to rewrite a git commit history, for example to remove a file : {{< highlight sh >}} git filter-branch –index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch ${file}" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat - -all {{< /highlight >}}