[git] How to remove/delete a large file from commit history in Git repository?

These commands worked in my case:

git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached -r --ignore-unmatch oops.iso' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
rm -rf .git/refs/original/
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --prune=now
git gc --aggressive --prune=now

It is little different from the above versions.

For those who need to push this to github/bitbucket (I only tested this with bitbucket):

# WARNING!!!
# this will rewrite completely your bitbucket refs
# will delete all branches that you didn't have in your local

git push --all --prune --force

# Once you pushed, all your teammates need to clone repository again
# git pull will not work

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