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bjornasm
bjornasm

Reputation: 2328

Remove committed files from commit

I accidentaly committed some very large PDF files that were well over GitHub's size limit, so when I later pushed, I got an error, and wasn't able to push. Now, I want to remove those files from the commit, without losing them locally, so that I can later add .pdf in .gitignore and commit and push my other changes. Does anyone know how I can do this?

I do not want to undo any changes, or risk to do that.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 26131

Answers (2)

nalyd88
nalyd88

Reputation: 5148

You can try this:

git rm *.pdf
git commit --amend

I think this should fix your commit locally and then you can push it.

EDIT

Copy your PDFs to another location as the rm command will delete them from the git directory.

Upvotes: 9

Jossef Harush Kadouri
Jossef Harush Kadouri

Reputation: 34267

Backup these files first

Open terminal, cd to your git directory and

git log

You will see something like this:

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Then copy the commit hash before the addition of these large pdf files and run this command

git reset --soft <good commit hash>

now you can push your local changes

Upvotes: 9

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