of your Git history, but you probably don't need this flexibility if
you're simply _removing unwanted data_ like large files or passwords.
For those operations you may want to consider
-link:http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/[The BFG Repo-Cleaner],
+http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/[The BFG Repo-Cleaner],
a JVM-based alternative to git-filter-branch, typically at least
10-50x faster for those use-cases, and with quite different
characteristics:
_is_ possible to write filters that include their own parallellism,
in the scripts executed against each commit.
-* The link:http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options]
+* The http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options]
are much more restrictive than git-filter branch, and dedicated just
to the tasks of removing unwanted data- e.g:
`--strip-blobs-bigger-than 1M`.