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If you can't push your repo to GitHub because of a large file in git history and you have even deleted it.
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how-to-delete-a-file-in-git-history.sh
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/23657759
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch <file/dir>' HEAD
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MrZenW commented Jul 26, 2023

According to https://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch#_warning , currently the official advice is to use the alternative tool git filter-repo.

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