I second the recommendation to use git rocket filter [1] from this link. A guy in our team committed a big file unnecessarily into the repo which already had a

I second the recommendation to use git rocket filter [1] from this link. A guy in our team committed a big file unnecessarily into the repo which already had a year's history behind it, and it was only a month later when I found out. git rocket filter filtered it in a few seconds. Since all team members had already gotten it, I ran it on all their repos to verify it's gone, and ran the usual git gc incantation [0] to clean their repo. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/29203553 https://stackoverflow.com/a/29203553 [1] https://github.com/xoofx/git-rocket-filter https://github.com/xoofx/git-rocket-filter