Error while pushing to github repo

Question

I receive the following error when pushing my commits

remote: warning: File var/log/system.log is 57.82 MB; this is larger than recommended maximum file size         


        

Answer 1

git rm or git rm --cached isn't enough to remove that file fir the history stored in your repo.

You need to:

• use BFG Repo Cleaner, as suggested above.

  bfg --strip-blobs-bigger-than 1M  my-repo.git
  

• use git gc --agrressive --prune=now (after BFG), as detailed in "Reduce git repository size"

• git push -f to force the new history on your remote repo.