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From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch v2] documentation: Explain how to free up space after filter-branch
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:06:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812221006.45370.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> (raw)

Explain how to free up space after filter-branch.
Thanks to Björn Steinbrink for pointing me in the right direction.

The v2 version of this patch uses "git repack -a -d"
instead of "git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250"
as this nocked down a box with 4GB of ram using a repository
with medium sized binary files (50 - 100mb).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-
branch.txt
index fed6de6..1432380 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -319,6 +319,18 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter \
 	 mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE' HEAD
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Free up the space in .git if the rewritten version is correct
+by deleting refs/original and pruning the reflog:
+
+----------------------------------------------------
+git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/original
+	| xargs -i git update-ref -d {}
+
+git reflog expire --expire=0 --all
+git repack -a -d
+git prune
+----------------------------------------------------
+
 
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