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Before, I used git locally without using .gitignore Afterwards, I created an .gitignore file, and write all unnecessary files in it. When I push them to git repo, fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly error appears.

I dont want to push ignore files, but, somehow git tries to push them to repo.

Please help me, what is my fault? Thanks

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  • You donts want to push the big files or the .gitignore ? Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 16:24
  • I dont want to push all files in .gitignore Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 16:30
  • I came here after googling how to block such Git pushes in the first place. I asked about that here. Commented Jun 11, 2022 at 23:39
  • Related: stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/… Commented Jun 11, 2022 at 23:39
  • the best answer for it is over at stackoverflow.com/a/77547007/11472644 Commented Nov 25, 2023 at 9:44

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GitHub has a nice article on this. You basically want to remove the files from Git history, but not from the file system.

  • If your file was pushed in your last commit, you can do:

    git rm --cached path/to/your/big/file git commit --amend -CHEAD git push

  • If not, they recommend using BFG–a tool for cleaning up repositories (alternative to git-filter-branch):

    bfg --strip-blobs-bigger-than 50M

    This will remove files bigger than 50M.

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Thanks for the link to the github article! I was missing the git commit --amend -CHEAD and was going insane!
Not sure why all other answers of stackoverflow are more complicated than this

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