From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Woody Wu <woody.wu@vip.163.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Big repository cannot be reduced
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:52:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C69FAA.10306@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a45d5548-b577-4588-92db-75339498034d@email.android.com>
On 07/15/2014 09:43 AM, Woody Wu wrote:
> I have tried some methods introduced in the network, but always
> failed. Some big files committed by me to a very old branch then the
> files deleted and new branches were continuously created. Now the
> checkout directory has grown to about 80 megabytes. What's the right
> way to permenently erase those garbage big files?
You probably need to use "git filter-branch" or maybe BFG
(http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/) to rewrite history as if the
big files had never been committed. But beware of the warnings about
rewriting history--for example, any collaborators will have to rebase
their branches onto the new history.
Michael
--
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
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2014-07-15 16:43 Big repository cannot be reduced Woody Wu
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