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Clean up large files from GIT repo.
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cleanup.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (C) 2014 Shogun <shogun@cowtech.it>
# Run this script with a single argument which is the threshold size. Example: sh cleanup.sh 100k
# Find the files to remove
files=$(find * -type f -size +$1)
echo "Removing $files";
git filter-branch --force --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch $files" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --aggressive --prune=now
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