new problems with github

[mfisher5]

I am trying to push some changes to my repo from my desktop to github, and keep getting the error "Large files detected... this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100MB". Last week I accidentally tried to push a large .fasta file from my desktop to github, but after github failed to push the files I deleted the .fasta file from that folder. Since I was still getting the same error as above even after deleting the file, I created a .gitignore file, but this still hasn't resolved the error. I can't push any new changes online until I figure out how to get around this file - please help!

[sr320]

On the desktop app you should be undo a commit? Once you undo a commit you can add any files to .gitignore.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:28 AM mfisher5 notifications@github.com wrote:

I am trying to push some changes to my repo from my desktop to github, and keep getting the error "Large files detected... this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100MB". Last week I accidentally tried to push a large .fasta file from my desktop to github, but after github failed to push the files I deleted the .fasta file from that folder. Since I was still getting the same error as above even after deleting the file, I created a .gitignore file, but this still hasn't resolved the error. I can't push any new changes online until I figure out how to get around this file - please help!

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[laurahspencer]

I had the same issue; I had to reset a few commits, which uncommitted the file changes but did not modify any of the actual files. Below is the script I used, but I highly recommend looking up the git reset --soft HEAD~<# commits to reset> command online to see if this is what you want, as I am no expert:

git log --oneline this shows you the recent commits, most recent at the top git reset --soft HEAD~<number of commits to reset> _this resets the commits; I've been told to be very careful wit this command; if there were changes to the file elsewhere (by someone else, or you via a different computer) it could muck things up.
git reset . git status

[MeganEDuffy]

I have had this problem, too! My solution was to delete that file's cached history, which I think was causing me to be unable to use git push. I did this using filter-branch:

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch big-file.file' -f HEAD