title: Large pack file git not solved
body: <p>My question is identical to this one.
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11050265/remove-large-pack-file-created-by-git">Remove large .pack file created by git</a></p>
  
  <p>I followed all the steps listed here: <a href="https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Maintenance-and-Data-Recovery" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Maintenance-and-Data-Recovery</a> and also tried all the steps listed in this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/11277929/5705536">accepted answer</a>. However, the size of the pack file is still large.</p>
  
  <p>Before:</p>
  
  <pre><code>count: 0
  size: 0
  in-pack: 2259
  packs: 1
  size-pack: 67333
  prune-packable: 0
  garbage: 0
  size-garbage: 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After:</p>
  
  <pre><code>count: 0
  size: 0
  in-pack: 2259
  packs: 1
  size-pack: 67333
  prune-packable: 0
  garbage: 0
  size-garbage: 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can still run this command: <code>git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-xxx.idx | sort -k 3 -n | tail -3</code> and see the three largest files and their corresponding commits but when I run <code>git log --oneline --branches -- &lt;large_file_name&gt;</code>, there are no commits which reference the file, which may be because I rewrote the history of commits. Clearly, I seem to have messed up somewhere along the line.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, how to fix this issue regarding the large .pack file?</p>