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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@talkhouse.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible git bug when using filter-branch to remove large binaries
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:55:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902152255.05655.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34854909-55F5-4869-A7A6-0E179F2F7A44@talkhouse.com>

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Juan Zanos wrote:
> I'm trying to remove a directory of large binaries from a git  
> repository
[...]
> The directory successfully  
> vanishes. However, the repository + working directory only goes from  
> 216M down to 133M.   That means the binaries were only removed from  
> the working directory.

We're in fact trying to make a generic recipe and put it in 'man
git-filter-branch'.  The preliminary patch is here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/109925/

Once you convince your eyes to ignore the leading +, it should be
fairly easy to read in patch form. ;-)

It would be very helpful if you could try the recipe, and report if it
worked.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-15 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-15 21:35 Possible git bug when using filter-branch to remove large binaries Juan Zanos
2009-02-15 21:55 ` Thomas Rast [this message]

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