Sensitive file removal

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Jan 17 18:20:46 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:07:22AM -0800, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 
> Just a theorical question.
> 
> If someone accidently added a sensitive file to a repository, doing the
> 'hg commit' and then pushed it into a repository.
> How could you completely purge a repository of that file?
> Assuming it contained company sensitive information.

See "I committed a change containing nuclear launch codes, how do I
delete it permanently?" here:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ

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