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| git filter-branch --force --prune-empty --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch *.elc" HEAD && git push --force |
Get the size of a Git repo:
git count-objects --verbose --human-readable
Delete (remote) tags, which might be holding on to the files:
#Delete local tags.
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
#Fetch remote tags.
git fetch
#Delete remote tags.
git tag -l | xargs git push --delete origin
#Delete local tasg.
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
Might want to disable signing when doing filter-branch or otherwise it will mess up commit messages
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Add
--prune-emptyoption to remove empty commits as well