git : How to remove a big file wrongly committed

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Thomas Cokelaer

I added a large file to a git repository (102Mb), commited and push and got an error due to size limit limitations on github

remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com.
remote: error: Trace: 7d51855d4f834a90c5a5a526e93d2668
remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information.
remote: error: File coverage/sensitivity/simulated.bed is 102.00 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB

Here, you see the path of the file (coverage/sensitivity/simualted.bed).

So, the solution is actually quite simple (when you know it): you can use the filter-branch command as follows:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf path/to/your/file' HEAD
git push
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5 Responses to git : How to remove a big file wrongly committed

  1. Drdrej says:
    February 19, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    thank you!

    Reply
  2. Nikiya Simpson says:
    February 20, 2019 at 8:08 pm

    You don’t know how much I appreciate this! I’m glad I found you on google.

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says:
    August 12, 2019 at 9:22 pm

    That did it, thanks so much!

    Reply
  4. Filipe Fenrich says:
    September 28, 2019 at 2:21 am

    Thank u very much!!

    Reply
  5. milad khanmohammadi says:
    September 28, 2019 at 7:58 am

    so many thanks, you fixed my problem.
    i really appreciate you

    Reply

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