From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Borzenkov Subject: Re: Remove "historical" objects from repository to save place Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:46:32 +0300 Message-ID: <200601220046.34151.arvidjaar@mail.ru> References: <200601212218.51055.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <7v1wz1mjy8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 21 22:47:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F0QZQ-00053K-0O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:46:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932394AbWAUVqt (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:46:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932393AbWAUVqt (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:46:49 -0500 Received: from mx1.mail.ru ([194.67.23.121]:5503 "EHLO mx1.mail.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932392AbWAUVqt (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:46:49 -0500 Received: from [83.237.195.229] (port=51124 helo=cooker.home.net) by mx1.mail.ru with asmtp id 1F0QZB-0009Ff-00; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:46:37 +0300 To: Junio C Hamano User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <7v1wz1mjy8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 January 2006 22:58, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > You might be able to cauterize the history at a specific commit > and then re-clone. I've talked about how in "[QUESTION] about > ..git/info/grafts file" thread yesterday, so I won't repeat that. thank you, quite complete description. One question - any caveats in using git ls-remote to fetch graft point? echo $(git ls-remote git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git v2.6.15 | cut -f1) > .git/info/grafts etc this avoids downloading over 1G in the first place. regards - -andrey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD0qu6R6LMutpd94wRAtuzAJoCT15+8d9BcIEhOxmD9lrRGWE6EQCghg5l SR5g1+nAUNlltYyXydxsFAs= =U2cu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----