Rewriting your git history, removing files permanently
see this great article at https://blog.gitguardian.com/rewriting-git-history-cheatsheet/
Steps:
1) Install newest git version (as git >= 2.22.0 is required)
For Ubuntu, this PPA provides the latest stable upstream Git version:
add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
apt update; apt install git
see: https://git-scm.com/download/linux
2) install git-filter-repo
python3 -m pip install --user git-filter-repo
3) Do it – here remove the file
git filter-repo --use-base-name --path [FILENAME] --invert-paths
or edit:
git filter-repo --replace-text ../replacements.txt --force
4) Push
git push --all --force
