How to remove a protected commit using BFG

Question

When cleaning the repo with BFG (https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/) ,encountered the following :

Protected commits
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These are your pr         


        

Answer 1

Running BFG with: --no-blob-protection fixed it for me.

The docs are here: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/, but I didn't see where they really call that out as a means to move past the error.

Note: In my case I had already tried to remove files manually, not using BFG, which got me in a state where I had to use --no-blob-protection.