Yeah learned this the hard way.
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Special shout out to the person who committed a gigabyte memory dump a few years ago. Even with a shallow clone, it's pretty darn slow now.
We can't rewrite history to remove it since other things rely on the commit IDs not changing.
Oh well.
Why can't you just remove the file?
They most likely did in a later commit. However the commit adding it can not be removed as OP said. So in order for git to be able to work properly the file is still in the repository in case someone wants to check out a commit where it still was present.