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Jonathan
Asked: 2014-01-28 16:31:09 +0800 CST

Removing sensitive data from Git. “fatal: ambiguous argument 'rm'”

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I'm trying to run this command:

git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename.js' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all

but I keep getting this error:

fatal: ambiguous argument 'rm': unknown revision or path not in the working tree
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Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
git

1 Answers

  1. Try replacing single quotes with double quotes, as this may help with some console shells e.g.: 

    git filter-branch --force --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename.js" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
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