# Remove a file from git repository

This will rewrite the complete history and remove a file from history. This is useful if you have a repository and added files you want to remove for reasons like accidential credentials or too large files (github now supports up to 100MB).

Use following command in your bash

    git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch path/file' -f

# Find a file manually

When you search the commit where a file was added or removed you can use git log to search the history.

    git log --full-history --summary -- path/file