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

I faced the same issue recently, you can actually just filter the branch for specific file and remove it -

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