1、如果您的历史记录中还没有包含敏感数据的存储库的本地副本，请将存储库克隆到本地计算机。
git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/YOUR-FILE-PATH/YOUR-REPOSITORY/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 1301, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (769/769), done. remote: Total 1301 (delta 724), reused 910 (delta 522) Receiving objects: 100% (1301/1301), 164.39 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (724/724), done.
2、切换到存储库的工作目录，克隆完成后库的根目录。
cd YOUR-REPOSITORY
3、运行以下命令，替换为要删除的文件PATH-TO-YOUR-FILE-WITH-SENSITIVE-DATA的路径，而不仅仅是文件名。这些论点将：
- 强制Git处理，但不检查每个分支和标记的整个历史记录
- 删除指定的文件，以及作为结果生成的任何空提交
- 覆盖现有标签，重写历史
git filter-branch --force --index-filter \ 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch PATH-TO-YOUR-FILE-WITH-SENSITIVE-DATA' \ --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all Rewrite 48dc599c80e20527ed902928085e7861e6b3cbe6 (266/266) Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master' was rewritten WARNING: Ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master' is unchanged
4、添加包含敏感数据的文件，.gitignore 以确保您不会意外地再次提交它。
echo "YOUR-FILE-WITH-SENSITIVE-DATA" >> .gitignore git add .gitignore git commit -m "Add YOUR-FILE-WITH-SENSITIVE-DATA to .gitignore" [master 051452f] Add YOUR-FILE-WITH-SENSITIVE-DATA to .gitignore 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
5、仔细检查您是否从存储库的历史记录中删除了所需的所有内容，并检查了所有分支机构。
6、一旦您对存储库的状态感到满意，强制推送您的本地更改以覆盖您的GitHub存储库，以及您推送的所有分支：
git push origin --force --all Counting objects: 1074, done. Delta compression using 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (677/677), done. Writing objects: 100% (1058/1058), 148.85 KiB, done. Total 1058 (delta 590), reused 602 (delta 378) To https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY.git + 48dc599...051452f master -> master (forced update)
7、要从标记版本中删除敏感文件，您还需要强制推送Git标记：
git push origin --force --tags Counting objects: 321, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (166/166), done. Writing objects: 100% (321/321), 331.74 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 321 (delta 124), reused 269 (delta 108) To https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY.git + 48dc599...051452f master -> master (forced update)
8、经过一段时间后，您确信 git filter-branch 没有意外的副作用，您可以使用以下命令（使用Git 1.8.5或更高版本）强制取消引用本地存储库中的所有对象并进行垃圾回收：
git for-each-ref --format='delete %(refname)' refs/original | git update-ref --stdin git reflog expire --expire=now --all git gc --prune=now Counting objects: 2437, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (1378/1378), done. Writing objects: 100% (2437/2437), done. Total 2437 (delta 1461), reused 1802 (delta 1048)
9、执行完成后会删除你的操作的数据文件