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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.

-- 

  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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