I noticed just today that Github has a number of counter-measures for absurd git repositories built in when you try to push something. For instance, I imported

I noticed just today that Github has a number of counter-measures for absurd git repositories built in when you try to push something. For instance, I imported a huge (3GB, mostly due to large frequently updated files in the history) subversion repository to git and got failures due to individual commits exceeding 100MB. This was quite helpful to bring the size of my repository to a reasonable state. Tools like the https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ are indispensable to do this kind of filtering without headache.