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# About interactive rebases
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Interactive rebases provide a manual way of rewriting the
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history of your repository. The changes associated to the
commits specified in your rebase range are reapplied
at the top of the given base target. During an interactive
rebase, you can intervene in this process and rearrange
the order; drop some commits; modify commit messages and
file changes; squash some commits together -- or split
them apart.
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This is one way to remove secrets that should never have been
added to the repository from the history again. Note that
if a remote is involved, this involves a forced push of
the rewritten branch (plus pruning / garbage collecting
on the server end, if you _really_ want it gone). In
addition, everyone with local copies of the repository
needs to replace their version with the one with the
rewritten history... a long and tedious process.
But, in any case, we are here to learn!