swooningfish/git-filter-repo-examples.md

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Install

pip install git-filter-repo

Remove files

git filter-repo --invert-paths --path "database/large-file.sql"

Rewrite author email

git filter-repo --use-mailmap --force

.mailmap

<newemail@example.com> <oldemail@example.com>

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