Finding and Purging Big Files From Git History - Ted NaleidOn a recent grails project, we’re using a git repo that was originally converted from a SVN repo with a ton of large binary objects in it (lots of jar files that really should come from an ivy/maven repo). The .git directory was over a gigabyte in size and this made it very cumbersome to clone and manipulate. We decided to leverage git’s history rewriting capabilities to make a much smaller reposi
