April 29, 2013

GitMinutes #06: Roberto Tyley on Rewriting History

In this episode, we talk to Roberto Tyley about rewriting history in Git. Roberto is a software developer, formerly at Github, and now at The Guardian. He contributes to various open-source projects, and he is the creator of the BFG Repo-Cleaner which we’ll be talking a lot about today. He’s also the author of Agit, an Android Git client.

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Links:

Roberto’s profile on the Guardian

Blog article about the BFG

Roberto on Github, Twitter

BFG Repo-Cleaner

Agit in the Play store

git-filter-branch

Thomas’ oh-crap-I-committed-my-work-email-into-a-public-repo-fix script

A nice benchmark of BFG vs git-filter-branch:

In particular, note the "if you don't have a Raspberry Pi" punchline in the end!