How to delete GitHub blame history?

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I'd like to delete the GitHub blame history that GitHub shows (tracking all changes made)

I am aware of how to how to roll back changes, but I am not trying to roll back any changes I have made, I am simply trying to delete this history of the changes.

Obviously, I do own the repository that I will be operating on (and am the sole owner)

I suppose you could force-push a commit that squashes everything in existence down to one commit. — jhpratt, Sep 25 '19 at 01:05
`git blame` is just one command that interacts with history in git. The history is just history, not "blame history". — Keith Thompson, Sep 25 '19 at 08:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '19 at 04:45

If this is for all files of your GitHub repository, the simplest way would be to:

initialize a new local repository
add files from the original repo
add as remote the original repo GitHub URL
force push

That is:

git clone https://github.com/me/myrepo
git init myrepo2
cd repo2
git --work-tree=../myrepo add .
git checkout @ -- .
git commit -m "Import myrepo"
git remote add origin https://github.com/me/myrepo
git push --force -u origin master

How to delete GitHub blame history?

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