rtyley / bfg-repo-cleaner

Removes large or troublesome blobs like git-filter-branch does, but faster. And written in Scala

BFG Repo-Cleaner

Removes large or troublesome blobs like git-filter-branch does, but faster - and written in Scala - Fund the BFG

$ bfg --strip-blobs-bigger-than 1M --replace-text banned.txt repo.git

The BFG is a simpler, faster (10 - 720x faster) alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository:

• Removing Crazy Big Files
• Removing Passwords, Credentials & other Private data

Main documentation for The BFG is here : https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/