Issues with pushing large files through Git

Question

Currently when I try to push to a Git repo, I am getting the following error.

remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. remote: error: Trace: 7bbfe5c1099cfe679aa3cd1eee13e10a remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information. remote: error: File e3384023be667de7529538b11c12ec68.201307290946.sql.gz is 125.37 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100 MB 

I have gone through and made sure that this file does not exist in the directory, and have done git add -u. We have tried to prune the branch but this doesn't work as it can't find the file to delete.

Answer 1

It is possible that you are pushing several commits, one of them including a large file, and another more recent one removing that file.

2020-2022:

Use git filter-repo (python-based, to be installed first)

And use some content-based filtering:

If you want to filter out all files bigger than a certain size, you can use --strip-blobs-bigger-than with some size (K, M, and G suffixes are recognized), e.g.:

git filter-repo --strip-blobs-bigger-than 10M 

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Original answer, using obsolete tools like git filter-branch or BFG:

In any case, you can try, as explained in "Fixing the “this exceeds GitHub’s file size limit of 100 MB” error", a filter-branch (if you know the name/path of the large file that you can't see)

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch e3384023be667de7529538b11c12ec68.201307290946.sql.gz' <sha1>..HEAD 

Or, if you don't know but want to get rid of any large file (say > 90MB), you can use the BFG repo cleaner

bfg --strip-blobs-bigger-than 90M  my-repo.git 

That will track for you that elusive large file in your repo history and remove it.
Note that you will have to do a git push --force after that, because the history of the more recent commits will have been modified.
If others already cloned your repo before, a bit of communication is in order to warn them.

Answer 2

In my case I fixed it with this link:

GitHub Help | Working with large files

Notice where it says giant_file

$ git filter-branch --force --index-filter \   'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch giant_file' \   --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all  $ git commit --amend -CHEAD  $ git push