In this episode, we talk to Roberto Tyley about rewriting history in Git. Roberto is a software developer, formerly at Github, and now at The Guardian. He contributes to various open-source projects, and he is the creator of the BFG Repo-Cleaner which we’ll be talking a lot about today. He’s also the author of Agit, an Android Git client.

Links:

• Roberto’s profile on the Guardian
• Blog article about the BFG
• Roberto on Github, Twitter
• BFG Repo-Cleaner
• Agit in the Play store
• git-filter-branch 
• Thomas’ oh-crap-I-committed-my-work-email-into-a-public-repo-fix script
• A nice benchmark of BFG vs git-filter-branch:

In particular, note the "if you don't have a Raspberry Pi" punchline in the end!