How do I remove a big file wrongly committed in git [duplicate]
You can do it using the git filter-branch
command, like this :
git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch path_to_file" HEAD
You can find more documentation here http://dalibornasevic.com/posts/2-permanently-remove-files-and-folders-from-a-git-repository
The command you are looking for is filter-branch
. It allows you to permanently remove files from an enlistment. This blog has a great tutorial on how to remove problematic files from the repository
You can take this great script from David Underhill to remove the file from the git repository:
#!/bin/bashset -o errexit# Author: David Underhill# Script to permanently delete files/folders from your git repository. To use # it, cd to your repository's root and then run the script with a list of paths# you want to delete, e.g., git-delete-history path1 path2if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then exit 0fi# make sure we're at the root of git repoif [ ! -d .git ]; then echo "Error: must run this script from the root of a git repository" exit 1fi# remove all paths passed as arguments from the history of the repofiles=$@git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch $files" HEAD# remove the temporary history git-filter-branch otherwise leaves behind for a long timerm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all && git gc --aggressive --prune