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Downloads:

6,399

Downloads of v 1.12.15:

714

Last Update:

11 Mar 2017

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Roberto Tyley

Tags:

git java

The BFG

This is not the latest version of The BFG available.

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1.12.15 | Updated: 11 Mar 2017

Downloads:

6,399

Downloads of v 1.12.15:

714

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Roberto Tyley

Tags:

git java

The BFG 1.12.15

This is not the latest version of The BFG available.

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All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

Details
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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install The BFG, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade The BFG, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall The BFG, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade bfg-repo-cleaner -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'1.12.15'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade bfg-repo-cleaner -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'1.12.15'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install bfg-repo-cleaner
  win_chocolatey:
    name: bfg-repo-cleaner
    version: '1.12.15'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'bfg-repo-cleaner' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '1.12.15'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller bfg-repo-cleaner
{
    Name     = "bfg-repo-cleaner"
    Version  = "1.12.15"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'bfg-repo-cleaner':
  ensure   => '1.12.15',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved by moderator flcdrg on 26 Mar 2017.

Description

The BFG Repo Cleaner

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:

  • It's faster: 10 - 720x faster
  • It's simpler: The BFG isn't particularily clever, but is focused on making the above tasks easy
  • It's 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.

This package contains a precompiled version of The BFG, with all dependencies included in the JAR file, as well as a Windows command-line executable that runs The BFG.


tools\bfg-1.12.15.jar
 
tools\BFG.exe
md5: 77034AB3DB6CDAFE7EBC1041546C2E63 | sha1: F5EA043FE1354BF1E05D6B2D5ADD89F007A03866 | sha256: 22688CDE5F99878B0139EEA9B07324E0839E97C5E51F0A7BF7F227432FF786B7 | sha512: 494EB81B7E589E076FB45799C98353A7F01AB95B323AE4D4137279F65C2246284F60183C066DB36FF03070333077F34937067C09256EDDD9909B215AA780C004

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
The BFG 1.13.0 1244 Wednesday, May 2, 2018 Approved
The BFG 1.12.15 714 Saturday, March 11, 2017 Approved
The BFG 1.12.12 501 Saturday, June 18, 2016 Approved
The BFG 1.12.5.20160618 436 Saturday, June 18, 2016 Approved
The BFG 1.12.5 514 Monday, December 21, 2015 Approved

Version 1.12.15:

  • Updated build using Visual Studio 2017
  • Upgrade The BFG to version 1.12.15

Version 1.12.5.20160618:

  • Updated build using Visual Studio 2015
  • Added C++ Redistributable dependency to ensure that the program runs on Windows 8.1 and earlier
  • Added Windows Explorer version information to BFG.exe
  • No functional changes

Discussion for the The BFG Package

Ground Rules:

  • This discussion is only about The BFG and the The BFG package. If you have feedback for Chocolatey, please contact the Google Group.
  • This discussion will carry over multiple versions. If you have a comment about a particular version, please note that in your comments.
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  • Tell us what you love about the package or The BFG, or tell us what needs improvement.
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