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Created July 21, 2016 12:07
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Deletes a file completely from the git history allowed you to remove large files that cannot be pushed to remote git repo
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Delete Large File from Git History
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch <file/dir>' HEAD
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