The objects folder in .git is extremely large for my small project

Question

Mine git pushwas very slow, so I researched and found out that the folder .git/objectstakes ~ 450 MB.

The full project is only ~ 6 MB, but I added archives of 140 MB in size. Since github does not allow large files, I deleted them and then did git add -Aand tried to commit again, but it takes a lot of time and seems to load a lot.

Forever Required:

writing objects:  97% (35/36), 210.17 MiB | 49.00 KiB/s 

How to fix my git repository?

Answer 1

Forever Records

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