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.

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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

Answer 2

git reset --soft HEAD~1

then exclude the file from the commit.

Note: Use HEAD~N to go back to N number of previous commits.

use this , go back a commit ,remove the large file from the commit if you can see it , then re commit and push.

this should solve the problem

Answer 3

Adding to the previous answers:

git filter-branch -f --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path_to_the_file/your_big_file'

Additionally, when I tried to pull I got "Refusing to merge unrelated histories".

Solution was to use:

git pull origin branch_name --allow-unrelated-histories

Then solve your possible conflicts, and push this time without the big_file.

Answer 4

You can revert git add before commit.

Check this question: How to undo 'git add' before commit? It should work. And don't send big files to git, it's not worthy ;)

Also, exclude your logs, by adding git ignore on your logs path.

Answer 5

@Daniel

You can ignore that log(s) file from git repo using .gitignore file. for that you have to add below line to your .gitignore file

/log

and try to commit again.
Hope this details help you to fix your issue.

Answer 6

Adding to the previous answers:

We are going to remove the large file from the commit as you said

1. Do the push from the terminal just to get the large file path git push --set-upstream origin Remote_branch_name, locate the large file path in the errors, something like RepositoryName/folders.../bigFileName.

2. Remove the file from all the branches, git filter-branch -f --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path_and_big_file' past the path that we found in section one instead of path_and_big_file.

3. Execute git pull origin branch_name --allow-unrelated-histories to not get unrelated histories error

4. Now try to push to git, it should work