Delete a file from Git

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I have mistakenly pushed a big file around(900MB) into git repo. Now i want to remove that file from that particular commit . Otherwise it will take too much of time for pull. Help me please...

This may helpful to you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2047465/how-to-delete-a-file-from-git-repo — Shantanu Banerjee, Dec 04 '12 at 11:29
See http://stackoverflow.com/q/2730411/291641 about removing sensitive data which is an equivalent task to this. — patthoyts, Dec 04 '12 at 12:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 04 '12 at 13:31

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There is a very good blog which explains how to identify very large files checked into the git repository and rewrite the history to delete them.

http://naleid.com/blog/2012/01/17/finding-and-purging-big-files-from-git-history/

its worked!

edited Dec 04 '12 at 13:31

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Delete a file from Git

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