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Coderaemon
Coderaemon

Reputation: 3877

Removing a file from an earlier commit?

By mistake I have done git commit of a big file in local Git Repo and pushed in remote(it got pushed as size was less than 100Mb though very large).

After that commit, I did many other commits(so lost track where I committed the large file).

On git push I got an error that the file is > 100 Mb(as the file size had increased) so it's unable to push.

After I got the error I did git rm on that file.

Now, when I do git push again the same error is still coming.

My approach is to first retrieve the git rm file(using git checkout commit#wherefilewasnotdeleted) then remove the file from the commit(using git reset -- soft Head) ?

I am trying the above approach still it's not getting out of the code that I push when I do git push?

Kindly suggest what to do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 94

Answers (1)

CodeWizard
CodeWizard

Reputation: 142662

You should use this tool:

https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

It the prefect tool for this kind of task

BFG Repo-Cleaner

an alternative to git-filter-branch.

The BFG is a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history:

  • Removing Crazy Big Files
  • Removing Passwords, Credentials & other Private data

Examples (from the official site)

In all these examples bfg is an alias for java -jar bfg.jar.

# Delete all files named 'id_rsa' or 'id_dsa' :
bfg --delete-files id_{dsa,rsa}  my-repo.git

Upvotes: 2

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