rtyley/bfg-repo-cleaner

Features

• Git Repository Optimizers - A utility that shrinks the total size of a Git repository by purging oversized blobs from all versions.
• Git History Cleaners - Provides a specialized tool for permanently removing large files and sensitive data from the entire Git commit history.
• Git History Cleaners - Removing oversized files from the entire commit history to reduce the total storage size of a Git repository.
• History Size Optimization - Optimizes repository size by purging large binary files from the version history to improve cloning and fetch speeds.
• Sensitive Data Purging - Identifies and removes private information, passwords, or credentials from the entire commit history to prevent security leaks.
• Head Commit Preservation - Preserves the state of the latest commit to ensure historical cleaning does not break the current production code.
• Direct Object Manipulation - Manipulates the underlying git object database directly to achieve high-performance repository cleaning.
• Latest Commit Protection - Preserves the state of the most recent commit to prevent production code breakage during historical cleaning.
• Commit Graph Traversal - Iterates through the historical commit chain to identify and mark targeted blobs for permanent removal.
• Blob Replacement Strategies - Implements a strategy to substitute unwanted files with empty or deleted entries throughout the repository history.
• Developer Tools and Editors - High-speed tool for removing large blobs from Git repositories.
• Version Control - Removes large blobs from Git history.

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