How can I delete a file from a Git repository?

Question

I have added a file named \"file1.txt\" to a Git repository. After that, I committed it, added a couple of directories called dir1 and dir2

Answer 1

I tried a lot of the suggested options and none appeared to work (I won't list the various problems). What I ended up doing, which worked, was simple and intuitive (to me) was:

1. move the whole local repo elsewhere
2. clone the repo again from master to your local drive
3. copy back the files/folder from your original copy in #1 back into the new clone from #2
4. make sure that the problem large file is either not there or excluded in the .gitignore file
5. do the usual git add/git commit/git push