Bug#781546: RFP: bfg-repo-cleaner -- simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history

[Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : bfg-repo-cleaner
  Version         : 1.12.3
  Upstream Author : Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
* License         : GPL3
  Programming Lang: Scala
  Description     : simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history

The BFG is a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for
cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history:

Removing Crazy Big Files
Removing Passwords, Credentials & other Private data
The git-filter-branch command is enormously powerful and can do things
that the BFG can't - but the BFG is much better for the tasks above,
because:

Faster : 10 - 720x faster
Simpler : The BFG isn't particularily clever, but is focused on making
the above tasks easy
Beautiful : If you need to, you can use the beautiful Scala language
to customise the BFG. Which has got to be better than Bash scripting
at least some of the time.