git filter-repo: The text that never was

2020-08-15 git,filter-repo,fishshell

tl;dr: Some text just doesn’t belong in a repository

Here’s a pithy bash one-liner to remove it:

git filter-repo --replace-text=<(echo "P@ssw0rd==><Sigh stop committing you password>")

Or if you’re one of those flounders that use fish:

git filter-repo --replace-text=(echo "P@ssw0rd==><Sigh stop committing you password>"|psub)

I am one of those flounders and psub always catches me out, because I only ever need to use it just when I’ve forgotten about it.