If you ever pushed your credentials into GitHub and you had many commits after that incident then it would be a big problem removing the credentials from the history. So one of the options would be to delete the whole commit history. In this tutorial we are going to see how to do that 😉

Deleting the commit history

Create a new branch

git checkout --orphan latest_branch

Add all the files

git add .

Commit the changes

git commit -m "commit message"

Delete the branch

git branch -D main

Rename the current branch to main

git branch -m main

Finally, force update your repository

git push -f origin main