From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Borzenkov Subject: Remove "historical" objects from repository to save place Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:18:50 +0300 Message-ID: <200601212218.51055.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 21 20:19:08 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 1F0OGN-0001MT-UF for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:19:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932256AbWAUTTA (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:19:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932257AbWAUTTA (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:19:00 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.ru ([194.67.23.149]:42799 "EHLO mx3.mail.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932256AbWAUTS7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:18:59 -0500 Received: from [83.237.195.229] (port=17136 helo=cooker.home.net) by mx3.mail.ru with asmtp id 1F0OGH-000FNS-00 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:18:58 +0300 To: git@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 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 Is it possible to conserve space by removing old versions? Let's say I am not interested in kernel versions before 2.6.15 - is it possible to remove them from repository cloned from one of "official" ones (Linus or stable). Description of git-prune suggests that it may be possible by removing tags from refs/tags; OTOH I may have commit chain that will prevent them. Also won't those tags come back after git fetch --tags? TIA - -andrey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD0okaR6LMutpd94wRAqEZAKC5VAkNMlL9TEmgELynIUf24Dd9oQCeOejQ Mdmc4lFsYXBHqofjQhgEIlU= =2j5N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----