git-sensitive-data-removing

A simple bash script to remove git files history which contains sensitive data like secrets, keys, passwords. Once you got here, you've failed on it like me. 😂

Index

• Requirements
• Permissions
• Run
• The files collection file format

Requirements

• You must have git client installed.
• Windows users:
  • GitBash installed together with your git client.
• Unix based users:
  • Just run it at your terminal.

Pre-run

• Copy the script to the repository folder you want to get the script working.
• Grant execute permission (only for Unix)

$ chmod +x ./filter-repo

Run

Run the script

$ ./filter-repo <files-collection-path>

The files collection file format

Each line must provide a relative file path followed by the secrets which must be replaced, split by an empty space.

Format

<file-name> [secrets]

Example

conf/appsettings.json mysupersecuresecret
conf/config.js mysupersecuresecret anothersupersecuresecret