Remove virtualenv files from all previous commits after removing from repository

Question

When I started working on one of my Python projects, I forgot to add my venv virtual environment directory to my .gitignore. Now, my GitHub repository is showing the additions and deletions from that commit and does not give me a good sense of when I made major changes (the venv directory had 100,000+ lines of code).

I've already updated my .gitignore file and ran git rm --cached . followed by a git add , commit , and push .

Is there any way to remove the additions and deletions from all previous commits where my venv directory changed so that GitHub will no longer count these additions/deletions in my commits? I would like to keep the parts of commits that don't include venv and only get rid of the venv part of the commit.

Answer 1

git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch venv"

请记住，这会重写分支的整个历史记录，因此您必须强行推分支，并通知所有用户，以便他们强行推分支。