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How to clean up large files from your GIT repo
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CleanUpMyRepo.rst

Sometimes people (maybe mistakenly) upload large files to GIT which are not needed. We want our GIT repos to be small and only contain the necessary source files, i.e:

  1. not any large images
  2. not compiled PDF or object files
  3. not large data sets

Those large files which don't need version control can be managed using GIT-LFS.

We can do this using the useful GIT BFG: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

Remove manually all the current bad files

  1. First go through and delete all the current large files that you no longer want, e.g.: 'git rm *.mph'
  2. otherwise, these will be seen as 'protected' files and won't be removed by the BFG
  3. do a commit on all these deletions and push them to the branch (or master)

Start with a fresh checkout of a mirror

After manually removing and commiting, do a checkout of a fresh mirror: git clone --mirror git@github.com:CaltechExperimentalGravity/Qryo.git

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