git remove oldest revisions of a file

Question

I have a 33 MB large file where I want to permanently delete the oldest revisions of that file, so I only the latest X revisions are kept around. How to do it?

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Answer 1

You might want to consider using git submodules. That way you can keep the images and other big files in another git repository, and the repository that has the source codes can refer to a particular revision of that other repository.

That will help you to keep the repository revisions in sync, because the parent repository contains a link to a particular sub repository revision. It will also let you to remove/rebase old revisions in the sub repository, without affecting the parent repository where your source code is - the removals of old revisions in a sub repository will not mess up the history of the parent repository, because you just update that to which revision the sub repository link in the parent repository points to.