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Asked: 2026-06-15T23:26:02+00:00

There’s a huge binary commit I’d like to prune from my repo. > git

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There’s a huge binary commit I’d like to prune from my repo.

> git log --all -- '*.tiff'
commit 05f03aba18164c736182e612181f99ce04e38845
...

It’s not part of a branch…

> git branch --all --contains 05f03aba
> (nothing)

…, it’s not pointed to by a tag and it can’t be referenced by the reflog. (I’ve cleared it with git reflog expire --expire=now --all)

Yet the commit is somehow referenced and therefore not pruned:

> git fsck --unreachable
> (nothing)

How can I find out what causes the commit to be referenced?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If your commit is reached by git log, you can just run git log --source to show from where your commit was reached.

    It might be referenced by a backup of git filter-branch – see this question for more detail: Remove refs/original/heads/master from git repo after filter-branch –tree-filter?

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