I committed a couple of big binary files, which eventually really slowed down Git.
This is how you find them, and delete them:
Script (will show top 10 biggest files):
#!/bin/bash #set -x # Shows you the largest objects in your repo's pack file. # Written for osx. # @see http://bit.ly/UmpwkV/ # @author Antony Stubbs # set the internal field separator to line break, # so that we can iterate easily over the verify-pack output IFS=$'\n'; # list all objects including their size, sort by size, take top 10 objects=`git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-*.idx | \ grep -v chain | sort -k3nr | head` echo "All sizes are in kB's. The pack column is the size of the object, \ compressed, inside the pack file." output="size,pack,SHA,location" for y in $objects do # extract the size in bytes size=$((`echo $y | cut -f 5 -d ' '`/1024)) # extract the compressed size in bytes compressedSize=$((`echo $y | cut -f 6 -d ' '`/1024)) # extract the SHA sha=`echo $y | cut -f 1 -d ' '` # find the objects location in the repository tree other=`git rev-list --all --objects | grep $sha` #lineBreak=`echo -e "\n"` output="${output}\n${size},${compressedSize},${other}" done echo -e $output | column -t -s ', '
And then:
git filter-branch --force --index-filter \
'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch some/file/you/dont/want' \
--prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --allgit push origin master --force
- everywhere else:
git pull --rebase