How to absolutely remove big or sensitive files from git history?

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Published: August 04, 2023

git-filter-repo

Install it

python3 -m pip install --user git-filter-repo

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/1563034/how-do-you-install-git-filter-repo

cd YOUR_REPOSITORY
git filter-repo –analyze # analyze big files, you will see the report in .git/filter-repo/analyze/
git filter-repo –invert-paths –path FILE_NAME1 –path FILE_NAME2

Reference:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/how-to-remove-delete-a-large-file-from-commit-history-in-the-git-repository
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/blob/docs/html/git-filter-repo.html