Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement)
A versatile tool for rewriting history like git filter-branch but without the capitulation-inducing poor performance, with far more capabilities, and with a design that scales usability-wise beyond trivial rewriting cases. git filter-repo is now recommended by the git project instead of git filter-branch.
A versatile tool for rewriting history like git filter-branch but without the capitulation-inducing poor performance, with far more capabilities, and with a design that scales usability-wise beyond trivial rewriting cases. git filter-repo is now recommended by the git project instead of git filter-branch.
To install git-filter-repo, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install git-filter-repo
To see what files were installed by git-filter-repo, run:
port contents git-filter-repo
To later upgrade git-filter-repo, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade git-filter-repo
Reporting an issue on MacPorts Trac
The MacPorts Project uses a system called Trac to file tickets to report bugs and enhancement requests.
Though anyone may search Trac for tickets, you must have a GitHub account in order to login to Trac to create tickets.