rtyley/bfg-repo-cleaner
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Removes large or troublesome blobs like git-filter-branch does, but faster. And written in Scala
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 4 stories, 2 comments · first 2018-03-08 · latest 2025-06-22
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…optimization tools that rewrite history like these: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ https://github.com/rtyley/bfg-repo-cleaner https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo https://github.com/tiavision/GitRewrite See also:…
comment by zackmorris · 2025-06-22 · in Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022) -
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What Is BFG?story by corentin88 · 2023-10-17 · 0 comments
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…people think on this sort of thing becoming normalized in free software. Other related issues: https://github.com/rtyley/bfg-repo-cleaner/issues?q=is%3Aiss...
comment by Evidlo · 2020-05-26 · in Political messaging in stdout of popular Git tool (BFG repo cleaner) -
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Political messaging in stdout of popular Git tool (BFG repo cleaner)story by Evidlo · 2020-05-26 · 1 comment
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BFG Repo Cleaner now prints an anti-trump politcal message each time it is ranstory by abaga129 · 2019-07-16 · 2 comments
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BFG Repo Cleaner – unrelated content in outputstory by Alupis · 2018-03-08 · 0 comments