📅 2024-04-04 — Session: Resolved GitHub Large File Limit Issues
🕒 22:30–23:20
🏷️ Labels: Git, Github, File Management, Rebase, Version Control
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to resolve GitHub errors related to file size limits by using Git Large File Storage (LFS) and amending commits to comply with GitHub’s file size restrictions.
Key Activities
- Reviewed and executed a comprehensive guide for resolving GitHub file size limit errors, including removing large files and using Git LFS.
- Identified and resolved large file issues during Git commits and rebase processes.
- Amended commits to address large files, ensuring compliance with GitHub’s file size limitations.
- Successfully removed large files from a Git repository and completed a rebase process.
- Committed edited notebooks to a Git repository, ensuring deleted data files were not included.
- Resolved Git push errors caused by remote changes not present in the local repository through merging and rebasing.
- Staged deletions and new files before performing a rebase, resolving conflicts and pushing changes.
- Utilized a .gitignore file to exclude specific local files from Git tracking.
Achievements
- Successfully resolved GitHub file size limit issues and ensured proper commit history management.
- Completed the rebase process and safely pushed changes to GitHub using
--force-with-lease. - Managed Git push errors and unstaged changes effectively.
Pending Tasks
- Monitor the repository for any further large file issues or push errors.
- Continue refining .gitignore configurations to optimize repository management.