Remove big binary files from git history #103
Description
In the past, Windows binary files were kept in the git repository and it grown significantly by now to 200 MB. Big files need to be found (dll, exe, pak, lib) and removed.
Big files can be removed after migrating to GitHub: https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data/ . After it's done users need to rebase any branches they have created:
Tell your collaborators to rebase, not merge, any branches they created off of your old (tainted) repository history. One merge commit could reintroduce some or all of the tainted history that you just went to the trouble of purging.
OLD INFO: I've tried instructions here: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Maintenance-and-Data-Recovery#Removing-Objects . As of that time I couldn't push such changes back to Google Code online repo. One solution proposed here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11277470/623622 is to recreate the repository. But this will most probably break existing cloned repositories.
Binaries files and extensions:
.exe .dll .pdb .so .pyd .dylib .dat .bin
"cefclient", "subprocess"
.pak
.lib .a .o .obj
Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2014 at 4:50