From: Michael Haggerty Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:52:10 GMT Subject: Re: Big repository cannot be reduced Message-ID: <53C69FAA.10306@alum.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: 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 -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu