Git：覆盖或擦除存储库中的大文件（归档）？

Question

I have a repository that uses 3rd-party code that currently is downloaded and compiled using a shell script. This works, but sometimes mirrors are slow or unreachable. It would be easier for me (since 3rd-party code are only OpenSource projects) to bundle it with my code.

However, I do not want my git repository to become huge over time (like it normally does, when you include large binary files that get stored each time you update them).

Is there any way to wipe .tar.gz (or similar) archives from a git repository?

Or could I somehow overwrite foo.tar.gz once it gets outdated? So that it only consumes the memory the most recent version uses (and therefore drops older revisions of the file)?

Answer 1

Is there any way to wipe .tar.gz (or similar) archives from a git repository?

How to remove big files from the repository

There are few ways to do it:

• You can use git filter-branch .

• BFG Repo-Cleaner

  BFG Repo-Cleaner

  An alternative to git-filter-branch.

  The BFG is a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history:

  Removing Crazy Big Files
  Removing Passwords, Credentials & other Private data

  Examples (from the official site)

  In all these examples bfg is an alias for java -jar bfg.jar.

    # Delete all files named 'id_rsa' or 'id_dsa' : bfg --delete-files id_{dsa,rsa} my-repo.git 

• GIT LFS (large file storage)

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