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I have a topic branch (off master) has that lots of changes. Throughout the history of this topic branch there's been numerous changes to a certain file. How can remove all changes to this file throughout the history of my topic branch?
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git filter-branch somehow be used for this?
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To entirely remove unwanted files from a repository's history you can use either the git filter-repo tool or the BFG Repo-Cleaner open source tool. The git filter-repo tool and the BFG Repo-Cleaner rewrite your repository's history, which changes the SHAs for existing commits that you alter and any dependent commits.
The git reset –hard command will revert uncommitted changes that exist in files that have been added to the index, whether those files are newly created files, or files that were added to the index in the past and have been edited since the last commit.
Using the git rm –cached Command We've mentioned that git rm FILE will remove files from the index and local working tree by default. However, the git rm command provides the –cached option to allow us only to remove files from the repository's index and keep the local file untouched.
No, git rm will only remove the file from the working directory and add that removal into the index. So only future commits are affected. All previous commits stay the same and the history will actually show when you removed the file from the repository.
Using git filter-branch:
$ git checkout topic-branch
$ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git checkout master -- myfile' master..HEAD
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