Permanently remove files from git repo
If you accidentally pushed some files to the git repos and you want to permanently delete them (so that you can reduce the repo size) you can use this command:
git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf my_folder/my_file' HEADWritten by Emanuele
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It's worth noting that it rewrites your entire history (from when the file was created), so it doesn't work well with a shared repo unless you can force everybody to throw away their local copy and clone a fresh copy.
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