Failed pushing files to the repo

Hi, I was trying to push my files to the repo from yesterday. But getting the message in GitBash >remote: fatal: pack exceeds maximum allowed size.

The size of the whole folder was 4MB, but even after deleting files, I still getting this message.

changed title from Hi, I was trying to push my files to the repo from yesterday. But to Failed pushing files to the repo

It usually happens because there has been some changes in the repository history. How many commits are you ahead from origin (you can check it in git status)?

Please, execute git log --graph --oneline --decorate -10 and forward me the result

Ivan,

Thank you. By 4 commits.

Try pushing commit by commit (from older to newer):

git push origin ec24cc8:master

git push origin 367e267:master

git push origin 5679a8:master

git push origin adfe98f:master

Thank you.

I tried, still the same fatal: pack exceeds maximum allowed size

With the first push? If you are at the uni please, drop by TS352.

First one was not typed properly, so I guess with a first one.

I can can in 1 hour approximately. Let me know where are you going to be and if you have time.

I will be at TS352 until ~12:00. Around 12:30 I will be at Fab Lab

Try git gc first and then push one by one.

I had the same issue and i posted an issue earlier, i already solved my issue.

There are 2 ways you can do it.

1. The command you really need will be git rebase, what it can do is to find exactly historic commits that you did, which was oversized and you delete that commit, and then you will be able to push again.

2. Delete the oversized files, and then delete .git and initiate again and push to remote repo. The bad thing for this method will be that you would lose all the history and need to start from 0.(Your files will still be there).

Let me try to make the 1st method more clearly

First run

git log --oneline

you will be able to see the commits history that you did. following is mine. Let's say the commit that i highlighted was the commit was oversized and i want to delete it. Then i will do

git rebase -i head~5 #head~5 means you want to change the commits counting from the head to below 5 items

Then there will be a file show up. Then you press 'i' from your key board, change text from 'pick' to 'drop' to the commit you want to delete. Then you press 'esc',':',then input "wq" and 'enter'

fixed.

Hi @nanjie.chen : Rebase might work but you need to be careful that you do not lost any modifications that you did in the commit. Actually, with a rebase you do not need to remove a whole commit but using rebase -i you can remove the files that are causing the problems.

@ivanmilara True. I used this method because i did know with the certain commit i wanted to delete, it only contained some videos which were oversized. I didn't change any other files within that commit. So i just dropped that commit and yes the video files were lost.(Anyway i wanted to delete them)

And actually the problem might not be that there is a big file in the workspace, but that there are big objects in the git repo (e.g. if you rebase and do squashing of multiple commits...)

Hi @nanjie.chen finally we solved it. It was a big file inside one of the commits (). Steps we followed:

• find the offending file: git ls-tree -lr <Commit SHA>
• git rebase -i <Commit SHA>~1
• mark as editable the <Commit SHA> in the rebase file
• git rm <offending file>
• git commit --amend
• git rebase --continue
• and then push

Thank you!

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good to know. Congrats that problem is solved!

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