Removing unwanted folders from git repo permanently - Repo size not changing

Question

I have git repo, I have accidentally committed some library files to the git remote repo.

Now it has resulted in increased size of about 6.23 GB. Then I tried deleti

Answer 1

I mention in Git pull error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename that git gc alone isn't enough.

One combination which should bring down the size of the repo should be:

git gc
git repack -Ad      # kills in-pack garbage
git prune           # kills loose garbage

However, This must follow any cleanup of big file (git filter-branch), and that is only for the local repo.

After pushing (git push --force) to the remote repo, said remote repo won't benefit from the same size reduction. A gc/repack/prune needs to be done on the remote side as well.

And if that remote side is TFS... this isn't easy/possible to do for now.

Answer 2

I am sorry folks!!! In addition to node_module there was another main culprit ntvs_analysis.dat that caused the huge size of the repo. Now I have removed that and now the repo size is 75 MB. Even the steps that I have followed itself was working