Did you push a very large file into git? Does everyone yell at you about your commit and your uselessness? Are you a junky punky like me that just ruin things? Oh I'm kidding...

Because of that big file cloning the repo again would take a long long time. Removing the file locally and pushing again would not solve the problem as that big file is in Git's history.

If you want to remove the large file from your git history, so that when everyone clone the repo should not wait for that large file, just do as follow:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm path/to/your/bigfile' HEAD

 git push origin master --force

I should note that you should be in the root of git repo.

If you need to do this, be sure to keep a copy of your repo around in case something goes wrong.

#git #clone #rm #remove #large_file #blob #rebase #filter_branch