Using the BFG Repo-Cleaner to delete files from your GitHub history (CC295)

July 22, 2024 • PD Schloss • 1 min read • •

Every now and then we accidentally push a large file or a file with sensitive data like a password to GitHub using git. In this Code Club, Pat shows how you can use the BFG Repo-Cleaner to delete a large file that he pushed to his repository in a previous episode. He talks about the difference between using “git rm” and the BFG Repo-Cleaner. He’ll also show how to install the java runtime environment along with the BFG Repo-Cleaner. This episode is part of an ongoing effort to develop an R package that implements the naive Bayesian classifier.

Code

You can browse the state of the repository at the

• beginning of the episode
• end of the episode