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Shawon Saha
Shawon Saha

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Remove accidentally pushed .env file from all git commits

#git #github

Make sure to safely backup the .env file first. Because this command will delete it from your system

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch .env' HEAD
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git push --force
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If you get error like this
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Run this command and froce push

git update-ref -d refs/original/refs/heads/main
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