From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:22:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4709CCB2.4000202@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710080204140.4174@racer.site>
Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> The rationale was this: filter-branch recently learnt how to rewrite many
> branches, and it might be tedious to find out which ones. But then, there
> is git log --no-walk --all, so maybe I really should get rid of
> refs/original/*?
>
> I'd like to have some comments from the heavier filter-branch users on
> that...
IMHO, a backup of the original refs is needed. However, it may be wise to
store them in the refs/heads namespace so that 'git branch -d' can delete
them and 'git branch -m' can move them back if something went wrong.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-08 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-07 21:23 Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 21:38 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-10-07 22:00 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 22:19 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-07 22:24 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 23:40 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-08 0:09 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08 6:15 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-08 9:23 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-07 23:43 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08 0:22 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08 1:06 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08 9:27 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-08 10:05 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-08 12:40 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08 13:01 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-07 23:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 23:24 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 23:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 23:38 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08 0:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-08 0:47 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08 2:28 ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-08 1:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-08 1:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-08 6:22 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-10-08 14:36 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-08 16:37 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-08 19:05 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-09 10:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 22:08 ` Alex Riesen
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