From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: 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, 8 Oct 2007 08:15:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071008061511.GA2859@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51419b2c0710071709s2f797df0u986447f5455f306d@mail.gmail.com>
Elijah Newren, Mon, Oct 08, 2007 02:09:50 +0200:
> On 10/7/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > you missed something. Your example compresses to about 124k.
>
> What version of git are you running? I reran all the steps to which
git version 1.5.3.4.225.g31b973 (irrelevant custom modifications)
> you responded (repeated below for clarity) with git-1.5.3.3 and still
> get 11MB. Also, you must have different filesystem extents than me
> since an empty git repo takes 196k here[1], so I don't think any repo
> is going to get down to 124k.
it is ext3. I do not install the hooks (~8k apparent, ~32k fs blocks)
and never activate logs by default.
> # Use vi to remove the line referring to refs/original...
> git reflog expire --all
another part of the suggestion re reflogs was to look into the logs,
to check if expire actually removed anything. It seems to have been
the culprit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-08 6:15 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 [this message]
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
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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