We all rely quite a bit on cloud services that are hosted by faceless corporations, these are generally stable services, but if Google’s actions over the years have shown anything, it’s that these services can disappear overnight without warning. So I try to do cloud backups from time to time for the various services I rely on.
Continue reading “Backing up Git Repositories”Removing Passwords from Git Repos
For those who have accidentally committed passwords, api keys, etc to a guy repo, we have a great tool available to take care of it, BFG. BFG will remove those secrets from the entire git repository’s history, not just the most recent commit.
bfg --replace-text passwords.txt
git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive
Passwords.txt is just a line delimited list of passwords. Just don’t commit this to your repo