Removing files doesn't impact the history, am I missing something?

[tbalbone31]

I'm doing something pretty simple: Just trying to remove data files that have been accidentally included in previous commits. When I run:

$ git filter-repo --invert-paths --path '*.xlsx' --use-base-name

It removes the file from the most recent commit but everything in history is still hanging around. Am I doing something wrong or not filtering correctly? I assumed it parses the whole commit history and removes those files.

Thanks