Git repo still huge after large files removed from repository history

Question

I have a codebase that (until now) used git to store its dependencies. The repository itself is available here (warning: it\'s HUGE). Needless to say, I need to remove the d

Answer 1

You need to run David Underhill's script on each branch in the repository to ensure the references are removed from all branches.

Then, as in the further discussion, initialize a new repository with git init and either git pull from the original or git remote add origin and then pull all branches.

$ du -sh ./BIG
299M ./BIG
$ cd BIG
$ git checkout master
$ git-remove-history REMOVE_ME
....
$ git checkout branch2
$ git-remove-history REMOVE_ME
...
$ cd ../SMALL
$ git init
$ git remote add origin ../BIG
$ git fetch --all
$ git checkout master
$ cd ..
$ du -sh ./SMALL ./BIG
26M ./SMALL
244M ./BIG