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  1. albertodebortoli created this gist Jul 4, 2020.
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    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41953300/how-to-delete-the-old-git-history

    git checkout --orphan temp <f> # checkout to the status of the git repo at commit f; creating a branch named "temp"
    git commit -m "new root commit" # create a new commit that is to be the new root commit
    git rebase --onto temp <f> master # now rebase the part of history from <f> to master onthe temp branch
    git branch -D temp # we don't need the temp branch anymore