Update a development team with rewritten Git repo history, removing big files

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Yes, your solution will work. You also have another option: instead of doing this on the central repo, run the filter on your clone and then push it back with git push --force --all. This will force the server to accept the new branches from your repository. This replaces step 2 only; the other steps will be the same.

If your developers are pretty Git-savvy, then they might not have to delete their old copies; for example, they could fetch the new remotes and rebase their topic branches as appropriate.

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