Summary: In this episode, we talk to Roberto Tyley about rewriting history in Git. Roberto is a software developer, formerly at Github, and now at The Guardian. He contributes to various open-source projects, and he is the creator of the BFG Repo-Cleaner which we’ll be talking a lot about today. He’s also the author of Agit, an Android Git client. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element. Use the link below to download the mp3 manually. Link to mp3 Links: Roberto’s profile on the Guardian Blog article about the BFG Roberto on Github, Twitter BFG Repo-Cleaner Agit in the Play store git-filter-branch Thomas’ oh-crap-I-committed-my-work-email-into-a-public-repo-fix script A nice benchmark of BFG vs git-filter-branch: In particular, note the "if you don't have a Raspberry Pi" punchline in the end! Listen to the episode on YouTube
