Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Elijah Newren, Mon, Oct 08, 2007 00:00:51 +0200:
> On 10/7/07, Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:23:59PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > The following set of instructions will duplicate my problem with a
> > > smaller repo; why is the local git repository bigger after running
> > > git-filter-branch rather than smaller as I'd expect?  I'm probably
> > > missing something obvious, but I have no idea what it is.
> >
> > The usual suspect would be the reflog.
> 
> The git-filter-branch documentation mentions creating refs/original
> under .git.  Unfortunately, it doesn't contain any links or
> documentation on how I'd clean those out and I haven't been able to
> figure it out.  I asked on #git how to clean these out and got some
> answers that didn't work (git branch -d and something else I don't
> remember).

rm -rf .git/refs/original/refs/heads/<the branch where HEAD pointed to>
(assuming you haven't repacked yet)

or just edit .git/packed-refs and remove everything "refs/original"
which fits the criteria

> So...how do I fix the reflog, and then repack to have a
> pack under 11MB in size?

git reflog expire --all (it is a bit to much. You can just edit
.git/logs/* in any text editor)