GoKawiilgit filter-repo is a versatile tool for rewriting history, which includes capabilities I have not found anywhere else. It roughly falls into the same space of tool as git filter-branch but without the capitulation-inducing poor performance, with far more capabilities, and with a design that scales usability-wise beyond trivial rewriting cases. git filter-repo is now recommended by the git project instead of git filter-branch.
While most users will probably just use filter-repo as a simple command line tool (and likely only use a few of its flags), at its core filter-repo contains a library for creating history rewriting tools. As such, users with specialized needs can leverage it to quickly create entirely new history rewriting tools.
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Prerequisites
filter-repo requires:
git >= 2.36.0
python3 >= 3.6
How do I install it?
While the git-filter-repo repository has many files, the main logic is all contained in a single-file python script named git-filter-repo , which was done to make installation for basic use on many systems trivial: just place that one file into your $PATH.
See INSTALL.md for things beyond basic usage or special cases. The more involved instructions are only needed if one of the following apply:
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