title: git - can't delete file permanently from repository
body: <p>I'm trying to delete some huge, 100MB binary file from my repository.
  I followed these instructions, detailed here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://stevelorek.com/how-to-shrink-a-git-repository.html" rel="nofollow">http://stevelorek.com/how-to-shrink-a-git-repository.html</a></p>
  
  <p>The instructions are based on the command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch filename' --prune-empty -f -- --all 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I ran the script again, after allegedly removing the file, it was indeed gone.
  But then, when I cloned the repository again, after pushing the changes, the file was back again.</p>
  
  <p>How can I apply the changes after deleting the big file?</p>
  
  <pre><code>git push origin --force --all
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>simply won't cut it.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: The file has been deleted 2 years ago, so there's nothing to commit/delete.
  I tried creating a dummy commit with some file addition, still no go.</p>