How can I ignore big files and push to git repo

Question

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

Answer 1

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.