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(solved, see bottom of the question body) Looking for this for a long time now, what I have till now is: <ul> <li><a href="http://dound.com/2009/04/git-forever-remove-files-or-folders-from-history/" rel="noreferrer">http://dound.com/2009/04/git-forever-remove-files-or-folders-from-history/</a> and</li> <li><a href="http://progit.org/book/ch9-7.html" rel="noreferrer">http://progit.org/book/ch9-7.html</a></li> </ul> Pretty much the same method, but both of them leave objects in pack files... Stuck. What I tried: <pre><code>git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch file_name' rm -Rf .git/refs/original rm -Rf .git/logs/ git gc </code></pre> Still have files in the pack, and this is how I know it: <pre><code>git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-3f8c0...bb.idx | sort -k 3 -n | tail -3 </code></pre> And this: <pre><code>git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch file_name" HEAD rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all && git gc --aggressive --prune </code></pre> The same... Tried <code>git clone</code> trick, it removed some of the files (~3000 of them) but the largest files are still there... I have some large legacy files in the repository, ~200M, and I really don't want them there... And I don't want to reset the repository to 0 :( SOLUTION: This is the shortest way to get rid of the files: <ol> <li>check .git/packed-refs - my problem was that I had there a <code>refs/remotes/origin/master</code> line for a remote repository, delete it, otherwise git won't remove those files</li> <li>(optional) <code>git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/#{pack-name}.idx | sort -k 3 -n | tail -5</code> - to check for the largest files</li> <li>(optional) <code>git rev-list --objects --all | grep a0d770a97ff0fac0be1d777b32cc67fe69eb9a98</code> - to check what are those files</li> <li><code>git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch file_names'</code> - to remove a file from all revisions</li> <li><code>rm -rf .git/refs/original/</code> - to remove git's backup</li> <li><code>git reflog expire --all --expire='0 days'</code> - to expire all the loose objects</li> <li><code>git fsck --full --unreachable</code> - to check if there are any loose objects</li> <li><code>git repack -A -d</code> - repacking</li> <li><code>git prune</code> - to finally remove those objects</li> </ol>
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