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Delete all files from a git commit

Warning this permanently deletes all files from an older commit, regardles if they were added, deleted or modified!

Fitrst, list all files with full paths:

git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r 39f96f9 > files.txt

Then, for each file from files.txt

git filter-branch --force --index-filter \ "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch PATH-TO-YOUR-FILE-WITH-SENSITIVE-DATA" \ --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all