Remove sensitive files and their commits from Git history

Question

I would like to put a Git project on GitHub but it contains certain files with sensitive data (usernames and passwords, like /config/deploy.rb for capistrano).

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Answer 1

In my android project I had admob_keys.xml as separated xml file in app/src/main/res/values/ folder. To remove this sensitive file I used below script and worked perfectly.

git filter-branch --force --index-filter \
'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch  app/src/main/res/values/admob_keys.xml' \
--prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all