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Remove a large file from previous git commit / GitHub

E.g. when accidentally committing a large file to a git repo and GitHub refises the commit.

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f path/to/large/file' HEAD

Afterwards, simply try to push to GitHub again...

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