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My local branch is not uploading to master because, as the error output states, "downloads/ue4-test-8.zip is 363.08 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB" I already removed this file and yet any commits I make get rejected.

  • I've removed the large file.
  • I thought everything would be fine so I added new files to the respiratory
  • Now I get error when going to push about a file that doesn't exist

How can I resolve this problem and get back to pushing this repo?

Here is my output log:

~\Documents\GitHub\mryamz.github.io [master ↑6 +0 ~1 -0 !]> git push
Counting objects: 42, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (28/28), done.
Writing objects: 100% (42/42), 360.48 MiB | 668.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 42 (delta 18), reused 36 (delta 13)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (18/18), completed with 6 local objects.
remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com.
remote: error: Trace: 92c21619bdc53df9a9cf2ed2b801c3d5
remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information.
remote: error: File downloads/ue4-test-8.zip is 363.08 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB
To https://github.com/mryamz/mryamz.github.io.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/mryamz/mryamz.github.io.git'
~\Documents\GitHub\mryamz.github.io [master ↑6 +0 ~1 -0 !]> cd downloads
~\Documents\GitHub\mryamz.github.io\downloads [master ↑6 +0 ~1 -0 !]> dir


    Directory: C:\Users\admin\Documents\GitHub\mryamz.github.io\downloads


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        1/22/2017   4:58 PM          52509 Ampersand Studio v0.0.3.jar
-a----        1/11/2017   5:39 AM           3538 ascii_art .jar
-a----        7/26/2017   6:00 PM         133830 ClientSide.jar
-a----         3/3/2017   6:39 PM       69347251 Defend_The_Train.jar
-a----        1/11/2017   6:11 AM        2896549 Doppler_Effect.jar
-a----         1/9/2017   8:01 PM       10315457 friction_sim.jar
-a----        7/24/2017  11:45 PM         208804 jnativehook-2.1.0.jar
-a----        4/24/2017   9:15 PM         890923 Ludum_Dare_38.jar
-a----        4/23/2017   2:36 PM        1759272 Ludum_Dare_38_SRC.zip
-a----        5/12/2017  12:47 AM           6259 MBS.jar
-a----        2/18/2017   2:43 PM         226755 Pascals's Triangle.jar
-a----        2/18/2017   3:33 PM        1660624 Quadratic Calculator.jar
-a----        7/26/2017   5:27 PM          35977 RawPCM_Player.jar
-a----        1/11/2017   6:18 AM       10871259 Renassance v6.jar
-a----        2/16/2017   7:34 PM         116175 Scorched Earth.jar
-a----         5/8/2016   8:55 PM          18151 ServerSide.jar
-a----        7/26/2017   6:12 PM           9170 Simplix-Earth-Branch.jar
-a----        2/18/2017   2:38 PM          41453 Spirograph.jar
-a----        4/30/2017  12:44 PM         646609 sw.jar
-a----        1/11/2017   6:49 AM        1307614 Word Bank.jar


~\Documents\GitHub\mryamz.github.io\downloads [master ↑6 +0 ~1 -0 !]>
RosnelOn
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mryamz
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    Possible duplicate of [How to remove/delete a large file from commit history in Git repository?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/how-to-remove-delete-a-large-file-from-commit-history-in-git-repository) – Tim Biegeleisen Jul 27 '17 at 06:19
  • Did you check the answer here ? – J K Jul 27 '17 at 06:19
  • The file _does_ exist...in your Git history. Just because you removed the file currently does not mean that it is not there in the history. Moral of the story: don't commit large binary files to your repository. – Tim Biegeleisen Jul 27 '17 at 06:20

4 Answers4

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I think that you have a commit with this file. Even if you delete the file and make a new commit, the file is persisted in a previous commit. And git push send all the missing commits to the remote.

You have to rewrite git history before pushing it. Without a git log, I can't help you with an exact command. Squashing Commits can do the job.

Kevin Robatel
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I fixed this issue by the following:

  1. git stash
  2. git rebase -i
  3. Then a text editor popped up and allowed me to write the term, "drop" next to the commit I needed to delete. The commit was deleted successfully.
  4. git push
mryamz
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Try:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf path/to/your/file' HEAD
git push
Arpit Maheshwari
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    Why should he do that? What does that do? How does it answer the question? [How To Answer](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer) – Rob Dec 01 '19 at 12:46
  • git push is not enough. I use `git push -f origin master ` which forces to update the origin – msalihbindak Oct 09 '20 at 07:54
  • this was the only answer that helped me solve this problem. finally I can push my files to the repo again. – fonzane Jan 28 '22 at 11:21
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check if Git LFS installed if not then got to https://git-lfs.github.com/ and download Git extension for versioning large files.

then run this command to install it after running the exe file downloaded.

git lfs install

after that use git lfs migrate command in your case the command would be:

git lfs migrate import --include="*.zip"

and the push to remote using:

git push
Dharman
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Muhammad Zakaria
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