Git error, need to remove large file

Question

I am getting this error when I try to push to git and I have no idea how to fix it.

Counting objects: 1239, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (1062/1062), done. Writing objects: 100% (1239/1239), 26.49 MiB | 679.00 KiB/s, done. Total 1239 (delta 128), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: warning: File log/development.log is 98.59 MB; this is larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com. remote: error: Trace: efd2d13efa4a231e3216dad097ec25d6 remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information. remote: error: File log/development.log is 108.86 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB remote: error: File log/development.log is 108.74 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB remote: error: File log/development.log is 108.56 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB remote: error: File log/development.log is 106.58 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB remote: error: File log/development.log is 103.70 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB To [email protected]:myUsername/myRepo.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:myUsername/myRepo.git' 

I'm guessing I need to remove the large file from the commit, but how do I do that?

Answer 1

To remove large files, GitHub suggests:

$ git rm --cached giant_file # Stage our giant file for removal, but leave it on disk  git commit --amend -CHEAD # Amend the previous commit with your change # Simply making a new commit won't work, as you need # to remove the file from the unpushed history as well  git push # Push our rewritten, smaller commit 

Or if you want more general information on how to work with large files on GitHub.

And next time add /log in your .gitignore