Deleting all revision history for a single file

[John Arbash Meinel]

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James Westby wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:22 +0000, Ollie Saunders wrote:
>> Consider a where a file has been version controlled and somebody put
>> some sensitive information such as a password in it and commited it.
>> You then want to remove that sensitive information from the revision
>> history.
>>
>> Is it possible to do this?
>>
>> I tried bzr uncommit -r 0 FILE 
>> but now bzr log lists noting. (I made a backup first don't worry).
> 
> 
> I'm afraid that is currently not possible.
> 
> Doing this means that you have to rewrite the whole of history,
> and so you would break all branches that had branches off from
> the one you rewrite.
> 
> It would be fairly easy to write a tool to do this based on top
> of bzr-fast-import.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James

Or on top of 'bzr-rebase'.

John
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