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From: Ralph Churchill <mrchucho@yahoo.com>
Subject: Help before pushing to remote repo.
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:13:04 -0700 (PDT)
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I have a file that contains a "secret" key value. I unwittingly committed two commits to my local repository that contained the value. Is there anything I can do to prevent the value from making it to the version(s) visible in the remote repository? I don't know if I can "edit" the commits or change the history of the file.

I'm using github for the remote repo. and am, obviously, very new to Git.