Hi everyone,
We have a GitLab-hosted repo at work that contains some large binary files that we’d like to remove. I know of tools such as BFG Repo-Cleaner which will remove a file from a Git repository. Tools such as this are effective at removing unwanted files from a Git repo. But, I’m wondering what the impact might be of using a tool like this with a repo hosted in GitLab? As I understand it, these tools re-write history and change commit IDs. In our commits, we cite issue numbers using the # syntax, and our issues contain references to our commits.
If we used BFG Repo-Cleaner to remove some files, and our commit IDs are changed, what would be the impact in terms of GitLab and the association between our commits and our issues? Does anyone know of a better way to remove files from the history of a repo hosted with GitLab?
Thanks,
John