I canno't remove a file with git rm neither directly on bitbucket web site. how can i remove it?

JulieCardin75

I have upload a file that is too big for bitbucket.

It was a mistake of me.

bitbucket is for scripts not a big DB.

I have tried to do my steps:

git rm --cached <myTooBigFile>

git commit -am "This was too Big and it it not script,"

git push

Everithing have been accepted but when i try do make some other modification on other files, it refuse and mentionned that I am taking too much space... 

I also tried directly on the web site

I went to the remote repository's website > Source > select branch > select folder > select file to be deleted > Edit > Delete > Commit.

But it didn't work.

and this also didn't work;

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6313126/how-to-remove-a-directory-from-git-repository/6313301#6313301

any suggestion to remove this too big file that blocs everything else , please?

Thank you very much

Ana Retamal

Hi Julie, welcome to the Community!

You've removed it from your current version, but that file is still available in the previous versions of your repo. You'll need to make sure that file is not in any commit. There are different ways to achieve that: 

• If the file was added recently, you can reset back as many commits as necessary to a moment before the file was there. The instructions are explained at Reduce repository size.
• You can rewrite Git revision history by rewriting certain branches, for more info you can read Git filter branch.
• You can create a new repository making sure the big file is not there with the rest of your code, however, this will means your previous history will be lost.

Hope that helps!

Ana