How To Remove GIT History And Make Your Repo Smaller

In this video I'll go over the steps you need to take to shrink down your repo and only leave the latest iteration up. One thing I didn't mention is that you should also manually check for large files that are in the latest commit that can be remove, but that is somewhat an aside and not everyone will need to do that.

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[ujavalgandhi]

This was really helpful. The only video that showed me exactly how to do what I wanted to keep only the latest commit and delete the full history. Thanks!

[edisonmondal]

Sir you have no idea that this tutorial of your has saved my life ❤❤😊😊

[rudinasubaih]

Thank you for the video. I want to keep the last 20 commits for example. What should I do in this case?

[zupacro]

Thank you man, this was really helpful !

[bulixss]

i have to do the same but my problem is i cant delete all the branches because other teams are working on them, it can be donde anyway and then i could suggest to them to do a rebase or something like that?

Thank you for the video also.

[Alex-rlgl]

very kind of you to share this info. thanks so much

[thomasmcivor]

the repo i want to clone is not mine. how do i remove all the old commits and branches and all other bs.... without changing the original repo

[wuxianzhe]

if this is the way to clear the history, why not simply create another repository with latest head?

[xade]

if u r losing each & every commit, then simply create a new repo instead

[thomasmcivor]

7 minutes ffs you couldve made this a 3 minute video

[ValdoSouza]

Thank you man, this was really helpful !