The second option won't help you. You've blown away your "private", which I assume is just the "remote" repository. You are trying to somehow recover your "remote" using the contents of your "local". I will have to look, and think a little more, about how to accomplish what you want without restoring what your deleted at your cloud storage.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 4:39 PM Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > I need some help from an experienced git user to unravel a git issue I am > having. > > I have a local repo and a private remote repo in the cloud (not github). I > am the only user. I have been using these two for a couple of years with no > issues. However, I inadvertently included some large test files in some > commits, and the repo grew to over 8 GB and started having issues. I went > through the local repo and removed the unnecessary files using BFG repo > cleaner, and now it is down to 145 MB. I thought I could just wipe out > (i.e. delete) my remote repo, make a new one, and then push my local to > remote and be done with it. It did not work out as I planned. > > I posted a detailed question on stackoverflow - > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64055979/issues-with-updating-a-fresh-remote-git-repository?noredirect=1#comment113275077_64055979 > and got one suggestion, but I don't really understand what the person is > suggesting. I also found this article, which seems to relate, but it is not > detailed enough for me to follow it. > https://www.nickang.com/2017-09-30-replace-git-branch-code/ > > I am hoping someone on the list who has some experience with git, can help > me fix this problem. > > Thanks! > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
