Drop old commit: `git rebase` causes merge conflicts

Question

Unfortunately we accidently checked in a large binary file some time ago and until today nobody noticed. Now I want to drop that commit and have the remaining history as it

Answer 1

My friend started a convenient script for purging files from git history, check https://github.com/donquixote/gitpurge

Answer 2

I'd go with filter-branch:

git filter-branch --prune-empty --index-filter '
  git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path/to/file
' --all