removed large files from git repo; repo still humongous

Question

I have, over the course of the last few days, removed several hundred megs of large text and binary files from a git repository that I had set up recently (I am relatively new to git).

I did this in order to reduce the amount of time it takes to clone this repository on a remote machine.

However, the repo itself is still huge, and it still takes forever to clone. I suspect that git is keeping some manifestation of the large files in order to maintain some history.

How might I remove these objects, to make my repository "lean and mean"?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to remove the history that contains those large files. See this blog post on the subject.