From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to trim old SHAs from a git tree (so it's not so large)?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:16:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061115221616.GD24861@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455B90AD.3060707@freescale.com>
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
> After doing a "make mrproper" in my Linux git tree, the result is still
> 1.1GB of files. Compare that with just the tarball, which is just
> one-forth the size.
>
> Is there a way to "trim away" old commits from the repository, so that it
> just doesn't take up that much space? I don't care about any commits made
> in 2005. As long as I can still do "git pull" from the source repo to
> update mine, that's good enough.
No. However...
Have you tried "git repack -a -d" to repack the loose objects into
a pack file? Doing this every so often should reduce your disk
space consumed by a HUGE amount.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-15 22:11 Is there a way to trim old SHAs from a git tree (so it's not so large)? Timur Tabi
2006-11-15 22:16 ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2006-11-15 22:26 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-15 22:33 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-17 10:36 ` Thomas Kolejka
2006-11-21 16:29 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-21 16:32 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-21 16:52 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-21 16:56 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-21 17:01 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-21 18:39 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-21 21:49 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-21 22:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-21 22:47 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-21 22:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-21 22:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-21 23:12 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-21 23:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-21 16:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
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