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Remove big files from git history to avoid error
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remove_big_files-from_git_history.sh
# This command removes any sql.gz SQL backup file from history, even if it was committed a few commits ago.
# Handy for big files that throw an error when trying to push. As always, rewriting git history is a
# dangerous action! Do not rewrite for commits that have already been fetched by fellow developers.
git filter-branch --prune-empty -d /path/to/tmp/scratch/dir --index-filter "git rm --cached -f --ignore-unmatch *.sql.gz" --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
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