Remove large file with git filter-repo¶

100 times faster than git filter-branch and simpler (stackoverflow.com)

git filter-repo¶

git filter-repo (github) is a versatile tool for rewriting history. It is now recommended by the git project instead of git filter-branch.

git-filter-repo is a single-file python script, which was done to make installation for basic use on many systems trivial: just place the script into your $PATH.

Installation is as easy as:

$ PACKAGE_TOOL install git-filter-repo

Warning: Do this on a copy of your repository. Many actions of filter-repo cannot be undone. filter-repo will change the commit hashes of all modified commits (of course) and all their descendants down to the last commits!

First you can run:

git filter-repo --analyze

This helps you to determine what to do next.

You can delete your big mp3 file everywhere:

git filter-repo --invert-paths --path-match bigfile.mp3