Git error, need to remove large file

Question

I am getting this error when I try to push to git and I have no idea how to fix it.

Counting objects: 1239, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
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Answer 1

To remove large files, GitHub suggests:

$ git rm --cached giant_file
# Stage our giant file for removal, but leave it on disk

git commit --amend -CHEAD
# Amend the previous commit with your change
# Simply making a new commit won't work, as you need
# to remove the file from the unpushed history as well

git push
# Push our rewritten, smaller commit

Or if you want more general information on how to work with large files on GitHub.

And next time add /log in your .gitignore