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Reputation: 727

How can I ignore big files and push to git repo

Before, I used git locally without using .gitignore Afterwards, I created an .gitignore file, and write all unnecessary files in it. When I push them to git repo, fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly error appears.

I dont want to push ignore files, but, somehow git tries to push them to repo.

Please help me, what is my fault? Thanks

Upvotes: 33

Views: 39212

Answers (1)

Ionică Bizău
Ionică Bizău

Reputation: 113475

GitHub has a nice article on this. You basically want to remove the files from Git history, but not from the file system.

  • If your file was pushed in your last commit, you can do:

    git rm --cached path/to/your/big/file
git commit --amend -CHEAD
git push

  • If not, they recommend using BFG–a tool for cleaning up repositories (alternative to git-filter-branch):

    bfg --strip-blobs-bigger-than 50M

    This will remove files bigger than 50M.

Upvotes: 50

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