将代码从 Gerrit 移动到 Github 时遇到“这超出了 GitHub 的文件大小限制 100.00 MB”错误

Question

I am moving all my projects from Gerrit to Git hub by following the instructions provided here .

While Pushing, I am getting below error

git push <git url> --all
Counting objects: 383567, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (125080/125080), done.
Writing objects: 100% (383567/383567), 647.42 MiB | 7.05 MiB/s, done.
Total 383567 (delta 249729), reused 383559 (delta 249723)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (249729/249729), done.
remote: Checking connectivity: 383567, done.
remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com.
remote: error: Trace: 213456sdfggdas123refsdaw
remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information.
remote: error: File aclocal.m4 is 147.07 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB

No file in the entire repository is more than 1 MB and that particular file is about 45KB. There are about 40 branches in that project and changes are happening very frequently.

How do I overcome this problem? Will it work if I just install Git Large File Storage and try pushing?

Removing the history is not an option for me

Answer 1

For your case, if the "aclocal.m4" file is the only one with the ".m4" extension, it should be enough with:

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch *.m4'
git push

Answer 2

The error message tells you the file in your history that is too big ( aclocal.m4 is 147.07 MB ).

If you absolutely want to push your history on GitHub, you only have 2 options (that will modify your history):

• You could rewrite it to remove the file if it is not needed and was committed by error.
• Or you could indeed convert all your repository (and your history) to "Git Large File Storage" using git lfs migrate . Not just install it...