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Description
The BFG is a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch
for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history:
- Removing Crazy Big Files
- Removing Passwords, Credentials & other Private data
The git-filter-branch
command is enormously powerful and can do things that the BFG can't - but the BFG is much better for the tasks above, because:
- Faster : 10 - 720x faster
- Simpler : The BFG isn't particularily clever, but is focused on making the above tasks easy
- Beautiful : If you need to, you can use the beautiful Scala language to customise the BFG. Which has got to be better than Bash scripting at least some of the time.
Snap-specific notes
You can adjust JVM max heap size limit via the following command:
sudo snap set bfg-repo-cleaner jvm.xmx=2048m
No other JVM parameters are supported as of now.