BFG Repo-Cleaner (UNOFFICIAL)

The BFG is a simpler, faster alternative to [git-filter-branch][1] 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][2] : 10 - 720x faster
• [Simpler][3] : 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.

[1]: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch
[2]: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#speed
[3]: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples

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.