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I backed up my database to Git just so I could get the database at my home computer. I don't want this file to be versioned. It was just a one-time thing really. Can I delete it for good, so Git doesn'...

I found out that it wasn't such a good idea to keep tracking the binary. The size of our repository is growing at a much faster rate than I would like. Is it possible to purge this file from git? No ...

Long story short, there are very big files (like iso files-big) that were pushed into git. Not during my time with the group, but they've been treating the repo like an SVN-VC. Anywho, how can i ...

I am trying to migrate my app code from bitbucket to github. I changed the remotes on my folder but when I tried to push on my new repo I had an error as I add a file that was too big in size. I ...

My Problem: Early on when the repository was set up a mistake was made causing all the images at the time to be written to the repository. This was quickly rectified in the gitignore file and no ...

I am trying to push a repository onto Github, but I cannot as "large files are detected". The largest file is only 38 MB! There should be no problem. However, the error states that the file ...

I removed a folder\files from my Git repo by running git rm -r --cached Application01 to untrack all the files in that folder and reduce the size of the Git repo. The problem is that the pack file ....

I realized my .git folder was taking up 1.3GB today and looked through the contents to see what the problem was. I found a .pack file taking up almost all of the space and searched around online, ...

I have a repository in which there is a "Trash" folder with a lot of trash files (previous developer wanted to store them for whatever reason). I want to completely remove them from repo, as they take ...

so i pushed a ouath key file into my git branch from my local copy. how do i overwrite commits in git to remove the oauth key file? i tried doing git rm cache /storage/oauth.key and did a git add, ...

When working on my Cordova project, I didnt have a .gitignore file, so when i committed everything (by way of git add *, it seemed to commit all my platforms, .idea, and plugins. So, this is now ...

I'm really not a Git user other than GitHub using the Windows Client. I've recently been working with a client that uses Git and Springloops. The problem is that I added a large file to my local ...

I added app.apk into git repository first, and then we decided to remove app.apk from git repository. Not only remove it from source code directory but also .git directory to reduce the size of git ...

There are several files ( mostly pngs ) amounting to around 5 GB in my Git repository. These files are spread across different directories. So, basically I just needed to delete those directories. Eg. ...

As with all Git questions, I'm sure this has been answered a dozen times before, but I haven't been able to find my special snowflake twin, so thanks for the patience. Here's the rub: 5 commits ago, ...