diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a0f305ed..701f62b9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-      <version>13.0</version>
+      <version>15.0</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <!-- IntelliJ Annotations -->
@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@
     </resources>
 
     <plugins>
+
+
       <!--<plugin>-->
         <!--<groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>-->
         <!--<artifactId>git-commit-id-plugin</artifactId>-->
@@ -209,6 +211,10 @@
 
           <!--<generateGitPropertiesFile>false</generateGitPropertiesFile>-->
 
+          <!--<excludeProperties>-->
+            <!--<excludeProperty>git.user.*</excludeProperty>-->
+          <!--</excludeProperties>-->
+
           <!--<gitDescribe>-->
             <!--<skip>false</skip>-->
             <!--<always>false</always>-->
diff --git a/src/main/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitCommitIdMojo.java b/src/main/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitCommitIdMojo.java
index b821df5d..3b0c4d0a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitCommitIdMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitCommitIdMojo.java
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import com.google.common.base.Function;
+import com.google.common.base.Predicate;
+import com.google.common.base.Predicates;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import com.google.common.io.Closeables;
 import com.google.common.io.Files;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
@@ -40,10 +44,7 @@
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
-import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.*;
 
 import static com.google.common.base.Strings.isNullOrEmpty;
 
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ public class GitCommitIdMojo extends AbstractMojo {
    * Specifies whether the execution in pom projects should be skipped.
    * Override this value to false if you want to force the plugin to run on 'pom' packaged projects.
    *
-   * @parameter property="git.skipPoms" default-value="true"
+   * @parameter default-value="true"
    */
   @SuppressWarnings("UnusedDeclaration")
   private boolean skipPoms;
@@ -248,6 +249,23 @@ public class GitCommitIdMojo extends AbstractMojo {
   @SuppressWarnings("UnusedDeclaration")
   private boolean skip = false;
 
+  /**
+   * Can be used to exclude certain properties from being emited into the resulting file.
+   * May be useful when you want to hide {@code git.remote.origin.url} (maybe because it contains your repo password?),
+   * or the email of the committer etc.
+   *
+   * Each value may be globbing, that is, you can write {@code git.commit.user.*} to exclude both, the {@code name},
+   * as well as {@code email} properties from being emitted into the resulting files.
+   *
+   * Please note that the strings here are Java regexes ({@code .*} is globbing, not plain {@code *}).
+   *
+   * @parameter
+   * @since 2.1.9
+   */
+  @SuppressWarnings("UnusedDeclaration")
+  private List<String> excludeProperties = Collections.emptyList();
+
+
   /**
    * The properties we store our data in and then expose them
    */
@@ -267,7 +285,7 @@ public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException {
       return;
     }
 
-    if (isPomProject(project) && skipPoms) {
+    if (isPomProject(project)) {
       log("isPomProject is true and skipPoms is true, return");
       return;
     }
@@ -287,6 +305,7 @@ public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException {
       prefixDot = prefix + ".";
 
       loadGitData(properties);
+      filterNot(properties, excludeProperties);
       loadBuildTimeData(properties);
       logProperties(properties);
 
@@ -303,6 +322,30 @@ public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException {
 
   }
 
+  private void filterNot(Properties properties, @Nullable List<String> exclusions) {
+    if (exclusions == null)
+      return;
+
+    List<Predicate<CharSequence>> excludePredicates = Lists.transform(exclusions, new Function<String, Predicate<CharSequence>>() {
+      @Override
+      public Predicate<CharSequence> apply(String exclude) {
+        return Predicates.containsPattern(exclude);
+      }
+    });
+
+    Predicate<CharSequence> shouldExclude = Predicates.alwaysFalse();
+    for (Predicate<CharSequence> predicate : excludePredicates) {
+      shouldExclude = Predicates.or(shouldExclude, predicate);
+    }
+
+    for (String key : properties.stringPropertyNames()) {
+      if (shouldExclude.apply(key)) {
+        System.out.println("shouldExclude.apply(" + key +") = " + shouldExclude.apply(key));
+        properties.remove(key);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Reacts to an exception based on the {@code failOnUnableToExtractRepoInfo} setting.
    * If it's true, an MojoExecutionException will be throw, otherwise we just log an error message.
@@ -633,4 +676,8 @@ public void setGitDescribe(GitDescribeConfig gitDescribe) {
   public void setAbbrevLength(int abbrevLength) {
     this.abbrevLength = abbrevLength;
   }
+
+  public void setExcludeProperties(List<String> excludeProperties) {
+    this.excludeProperties = excludeProperties;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitDescribeConfig.java b/src/main/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitDescribeConfig.java
index 3c8e9756..e3d049ba 100644
--- a/src/main/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitDescribeConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitDescribeConfig.java
@@ -218,4 +218,17 @@ public Boolean getTags() {
   public void setTags(Boolean tags) {
     this.tags = tags;
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return "GitDescribeConfig{" +
+        "skip=" + skip +
+        ", always=" + always +
+        ", dirty='" + dirty + '\'' +
+        ", match='" + match + '\'' +
+        ", abbrev=" + abbrev +
+        ", tags=" + tags +
+        ", forceLongFormat=" + forceLongFormat +
+        '}';
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/ContainsKeyCondition.java b/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/ContainsKeyCondition.java
index 47353287..9d5616f3 100644
--- a/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/ContainsKeyCondition.java
+++ b/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/ContainsKeyCondition.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public boolean matches(@NotNull Map<?, ?> map) {
     if (!containsKey) {
       throw new RuntimeException(String.format("Map did not contain [%s] key! Map is: %s", key, map));
     }
-    return containsKey;
+    return true;
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/DoesNotContainKeyCondition.java b/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/DoesNotContainKeyCondition.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ae198c78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/DoesNotContainKeyCondition.java
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/*
+ * This file is part of git-commit-id-plugin by Konrad Malawski <konrad.malawski@java.pl>
+ *
+ * git-commit-id-plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * git-commit-id-plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with git-commit-id-plugin.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+package pl.project13.maven.git;
+
+import org.fest.assertions.Condition;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+class DoesNotContainKeyCondition extends Condition<Map<?, ?>> {
+
+  private String key;
+
+  public DoesNotContainKeyCondition(String key) {
+    this.key = key;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean matches(@NotNull Map<?, ?> map) {
+    boolean containsKey = map.containsKey(key);
+    if (containsKey) {
+      System.out.println(String.format("Map contained [%s] key! Map is: %s", key, map));
+      throw new RuntimeException(String.format("Map contained [%s] key! Map is: %s", key, map));
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitCommitIdMojoTest.java b/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitCommitIdMojoTest.java
index 94188ee2..aee00fc0 100644
--- a/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitCommitIdMojoTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/pl/project13/maven/git/GitCommitIdMojoTest.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 package pl.project13.maven.git;
 
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository;
@@ -78,6 +79,38 @@ public void shouldIncludeExpectedProperties() throws Exception {
     verify(mojo).putGitDescribe(any(Properties.class), any(Repository.class));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void shouldExcludeAsConfiguredProperties() throws Exception {
+    // given
+    mojo.setExcludeProperties(ImmutableList.of("git.remote.origin.url", ".*.user.*"));
+
+    // when
+    mojo.execute();
+
+    // then
+    Properties properties = mojo.getProperties();
+
+    // explicitly excluded
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new DoesNotContainKeyCondition("git.remote.origin.url"));
+
+    // glob excluded
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new DoesNotContainKeyCondition("git.build.user.name"));
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new DoesNotContainKeyCondition("git.build.user.email"));
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new DoesNotContainKeyCondition("git.commit.user.name"));
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new DoesNotContainKeyCondition("git.commit.user.email"));
+
+    // these stay
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new ContainsKeyCondition("git.branch"));
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new ContainsKeyCondition("git.commit.id"));
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new ContainsKeyCondition("git.commit.id.abbrev"));
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new ContainsKeyCondition("git.commit.message.full"));
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new ContainsKeyCondition("git.commit.message.short"));
+    assertThat(properties).satisfies(new ContainsKeyCondition("git.commit.time"));
+
+    verify(mojo).maybePutGitDescribe(any(Properties.class), any(Repository.class));
+    verify(mojo).putGitDescribe(any(Properties.class), any(Repository.class));
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void shouldSkipDescribeWhenConfiguredToDoSo() throws Exception {
     // given