Remove parts of our bloated git history
git
Solution
If it is removing part of history - you use `git rebase interactive`
if it is file removal (from all versions) use `git filter-branch`
Problem
My Problem: Early on when the repository was set up a mistake was made causing all the images at the time to be written to the repository. This was quickly rectified in the gitignore file and no longer presents a problem. The problem is now that we have an enormous repository which contains the history of the images. This presents a problem when cloning the repository locally as it takes a lot longer than a clean clone from the tip. My questions: Is there a way of removing the part of the history that includes the images which are never going to be needed? If I cannot remove can I compress or even cleanup the history in any way?