Git remove only push last local commit

Question

I have made a bunch of changes on my local git version of a Rails project that I don't want to lose, however in doing so, I accidentally created a vendor/bundle folder in Git.

I realized as soon as I committed that I did this and did a git rm for the folder (and added the folder to gitignore), and committed again. However, now I can't push the original because the bundle is too large.

What I need

• How can I keep the edits (and new files) I made.
• While removing the bundle folder from git history
• And not pushing that commit with them since the directory is too large

I've been searching SO for various ways of soft resetting here, but I'm stuck..

Answer 1

You could do git reset --soft HEAD~x where x is the number of review you want to reset - 2 in your case and then add the directory to the gitignore file and also remove it from the staged area.

Answer 2

I think I found the answer:

This occurs fairly commonly. Someone accidentally commits a huge binary file with a thoughtless git add ., and you want to remove it everywhere. Perhaps you accidentally committed a file that contained a password, and you want to make your project open source. filter-branch is the tool you probably want to use to scrub your entire history. To remove a file named passwords.txt from your entire history, you can use the --tree-filter option to filter-branch:

Source:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f /vendor/bundle' HEAD