Remove Commit History

Proposed Solution

• Clone Git repository
• Create orphan branch
  • git checkout --orphan temp
• Stage all changes
  • git add -A
  • git commit -m "init commit (cleaned history)"
• Delete old branch
  • git branch -D main
• Rename current temp branch to main
  • git branch -m main
• Force-push current branch to GitHub
  • git push -f origin main
• Delete all other branches and tags if needed

  •     git tag | xargs git tag -d  # Delete local tags
        git push origin --delete --tags  # Delete remote tags
        git push origin --delete old-branch  # Repeat for historical branches