Git unintentionally pushing files
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Solution
Because you used `git revert`, those files are still referenced in your repository. It sounds like this was your basic sequence:
git add <a bunch of stuff including big files>
git commit # creates a commit including the unwanted files
# realize mistake
git revert HEAD # this creates a new commit on top of the previous one,
# that simply undoes all the changes in the previous commit
# now trying to push
If you have no other commits in your `master` since (or in between) the bad commit and the reversion of the bad commit (in other words your graph looks like (where Z is the last good commit):
.....Z--A--A' <- master
then the following should help:
git reset --hard Z
This will reset your `master` branch back to `Z`, along with your working directory and index, which means it will look like the bad commit and the reversion never happened.
If there are other commits after the `A` point in the above, you'll need to use `git rebase -i Z`, and delete the two lines corresponding to `A` and `A'` instead.
If there are other changes in `A` that you want to keep (i.e. it wasn't just the big files that got committed there), you'll need to use the `git rebase -i` route, and mark `A` for `edit`. This will cause `rebase` to stop at the point it's just done the `A` commit, and then you can do this:
git rm --cached <big files> # remove the files from your index
git commit --amend # fix up the last commit
git rebase --continue # let rebase finish up the rest
Once you've done either of the above, `git push` should be able to proceed again...
Problem
The problem I accidentally added my datasets to my commit. When I pushed the commit it gave me the standard file size error (dataset files are over 100MB). I reverted the previous commit using `git revert`, and only added my ipython notebook and some image files. Now when I push my commit it still tires to push the dataset files as well Using `git diff --stat origin/master` I found the files to be pushed : agconti@agconti-Inspiron-5520:~/my_dev/github/US_Dolltar_Vehicle_Currencny$ git diff --stat origin/master ``` .ipynb_checkpoints/US_Dollar_Vehicle_Currency-checkpoint.ipynb | 1972 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CountryNumbers_indexConti.xlsx | Bin 0 -> 22762 bytes Italian Trade/US_Dollar_Vehicle_Currency.ipynb | 1972 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Italian Trade/images/3_year_exchange_rate_volitlity.png | Bin 0 -> 11808 bytes Italian Trade/images/Currency_usage_breakdown_top20.png | Bin 0 -> 404666 bytes Italian Trade/images/Currency_usage_observations_top20.png | Bin 0 -> 274964 bytes Italian Trade/images/Currency_usage_trade_value_top20.png | Bin 0 -> 211274 bytes Italian Trade/images/Exchange_rate_volitlity_top20.png | Bin 0 -> 345899 bytes Italian Trade/images/prop_xm_top20.png | Bin 0 -> 258254 bytes Italian Trade/images/rate_derive_activity_top20.png | Bin 0 -> 214196 bytes README.md | 2 +- US_Dollar_Vehicle_Currency.ipynb | 809 -------------------------------- images/3_year_exchange_rate_volitlity.png | Bin 11808 -> 0 bytes images/Currency_usage_breakdown_top20.png | Bin 404666 -> 0 bytes images/Currency_usage_observations_top20.png | Bin 292532 -> 0 bytes images/Currency_usage_trade_value_top20.png | Bin 224008 -> 0 bytes images/Exchange_rate_volitlity_top20.png | Bin 361868 -> 0 bytes images/exporter_economic_strength_top20.png | Bin 0 -> 166575 bytes images/exporter_trade_health_top20.png | Bin 0 -> 277557 bytes images/prop_xm_top20.png | Bin 275777 -> 0 bytes images/rate_derive_activity_top20.png | Bin 228728 -> 0 bytes libpeerconnection.log | 0 22 files changed, 3945 insertions(+), 810 deletions(-) ``` None are the dataset files. Even so they are still being pushed. How can I get git to stop pushing the dataset files? Heres a look at the error message: ``` Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done. Writing objects: 100% (30/30), 279.15 MiB | 389 KiB/s, done. Total 30 (delta 7), reused 3 (delta 0) remote: Error code: c4fe7114933ad585dc5027c82caabdaa remote: warning: Error GH413: Large files detected. remote: warning: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information. remote: error: File ForConti_AllItalianImportsVCP.raw is 987.19 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100 MB remote: error: File italian_imports.csv is 1453.55 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100 MB remote: error: File italian_imports_random_10percent.csv is 138.30 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100 MB To https://github.com/agconti/US_Dollar_Vehicle_Currency ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/agconti/US_Dollar_Vehicle_Currency' ``` What I've tried How can I see what I am about to push with git? How to revert Git repository to a previous commit?