Git is something most of us, as developers, can't live without. However, Git may also behave like a double-edged sword, especially for less-than-seasoned developers like me, who inevitably ended up doing something stupid to my Git repository.

Chen Hui Jing

A developer accidentally commits a 5GB folder of media files to a Git repository and pushes it to Bitbucket. The post walks through the recovery process using git filter-branch to rewrite Git history, remove unwanted files from all commits, and clean up the repository. It explains each command option in detail, from filtering branches to pruning unreachable objects, ultimately creating a clean repository by cloning and establishing a new remote origin.

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