Comments on: How to Delete Commit History in Github

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:54:19 +0000

Exactly what I needed!
Thank you!

By: Felipe Sodre

Felipe Sodre — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:22:31 +0000

Dear RAHUL, I have a branch on upstream that has already a open Pull Request with some comments.

What happens to my PR if I execute this procedure you suggest. Does my PR get closed?

Is there any other way that I can just remove my commits comments history, keeping just the latest one on my java files.

I had to commit several versions as a test. I don’t want the next developer get the file with several comments as testing.

Thanks.

By: Larik

Larik — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 11:26:31 +0000

It’s helped, thanks!
They say: “… please clear history and try again…”
But they didn’t make any way to clear that from UI, what is the point…

By: Akash

Akash — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 23:15:35 +0000

Great! Thanks 🙂

By: Horatio

Horatio — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 05:32:30 +0000

Salute!

By: João

João — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 02:08:44 +0000

Thank you!

By: rosen

rosen — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:00:43 +0000

i love you. i couldnt remove sensitive data from the repo because i burried it with more commits and nothing else worked until i found this <3

By: Ondřej

Ondřej — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:14:20 +0000

Thanks, this helped. However, the remote server still keeps the old commits and they may be accessible, e.g. from web GUI or by commit hash. This is a problem if you accidentally commited a password.

The fix is to ssh into the bare repo and run `git gc –prune=now`. That should drop them.

By: Grateful

Grateful — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 07:46:14 +0000

Works like a charm. Thank you!

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 23:04:03 +0000

Thanks!