Git this script lists the files that are larger than the size you specify. Example use: python git-find-big-files.py fix-remove-files 1000000 (file size in MBs)

git-get-files-by-size.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# run the script:  python git-find-big-files.py <the branch> <file size>
# Example use:  python git-find-big-files.py fix-remove-files 1000000 (this value equals 1 Megabyte)
# the Fix-remove-files specifies the branch that you are cleaning

import os, sys

def getOutput(cmd):
    return os.popen(cmd).read()

if (len(sys.argv) != 3):
    print len(sys.argv)
    print "usage: %s size_in_bytes" % sys.argv[0]
else:
    maxSize = int(sys.argv[2])

    revisions = getOutput("git rev-list HEAD").split()

    bigfiles = set()
    for revision in revisions:
        files = getOutput("git ls-tree -zrl %s" % revision).split('\0')
        for file in files:
            if file == "":
                continue
            splitdata = file.split()
            commit = splitdata[2]
            if splitdata[3] == "-":
                continue
            size = int(splitdata[3])
            path = splitdata[4]
            if (size > maxSize):
                bigfiles.add("%10d %s %s" % (size, commit, path))

    bigfiles = sorted(bigfiles, reverse=True)

    for f in bigfiles:
        print f

git-remove-files-from-repos.txt

#Run this command while inside the git repo & be sure to input the file path for every file you want removed from the git repo

git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached -r --ignore-unmatch  test- <Enter your file & path here>' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all