Subject: Re: Big repository cannot be reduced

From: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:52:10 -0700

On 07/15/2014 09:43 AM, Woody Wu wrote:
> I have tried some methods introduced in the network, but always
> failed.  Some big files committed by me to a very old branch then the
> files deleted and new branches were continuously created. Now the
> checkout directory has grown to about 80 megabytes.  What's the right
> way to permenently erase those garbage big files?

You probably need to use "git filter-branch" or maybe BFG
(http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/) to rewrite history as if the
big files had never been committed.  But beware of the warnings about
rewriting history--for example, any collaborators will have to rebase
their branches onto the new history.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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