How do I permanently remove (obliterate) files from history?

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Published on 2010-04-23T22:40:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 15:13 UTC
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I commited a lot of files locally (including binary files removing & adding...) and now when I try to push it takes a lot of time. Actually I messed up my local repo history.

How could I avoid this mistake in the future ? Can I transform a set of local revision 1->2->3->4 to 1->2 with 2 being the final revision of the local clone ?

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