From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Vereshagin Subject: delete deprecated refs to release disk space Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:10:33 +0400 Organization: ' Message-ID: <20111113151033.GD16065@external.screwed.box> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 13 16:18:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RPboj-0007FF-SR for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:17:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753845Ab1KMPRx (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:17:53 -0500 Received: from ns1.skyriver.ru ([89.108.118.221]:49241 "EHLO mx1.skyriver.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752952Ab1KMPRw (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:17:52 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 384 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:17:52 EST Received: from localhost (exit-01b.noisetor.net [173.254.216.67]) by mx1.skyriver.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E9F755A80 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:36:40 +0400 (MSK) Content-Disposition: inline X-Face: 8T>{1owI$Byj]]a;^G]kRf*dkq>E-3':F>4ODP[#X4s"dr?^b&2G@'3lukno]A1wvJ_L(~u 6>I2ra/<,j1%@C[LN=>p#_}RIV+#:KTszp-X$bQOj,K Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello. I use git for sql database backups: http://gitweb.vereshagin.org/endvance/blob_plain/HEAD:/endvance/README Am wondering if there is a way to remove the expired revisions? Following that scenario: https://gist.github.com/1362183 I think there should be the way to decrease the space that .git takes. Without compression, of course. No problem if this involves the overwriting of the history like filter-branch does. But filter-branch doesn't seem to be able to remove the old info from repository based on expiration time, does it? Thank you. -- Peter Vereshagin (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: A0E26627