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From: "Tzury Bar Yochay" <tzury.by@gmail.com>
Subject: Is there a way to control the number of revisions will be saved by git
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:01:10 +0200
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Hello Happy Gitters,

Say I wish to save only 100 generations back (per branch).
Is it possible to configure git so it will save only N records back.

If git cannot be configured for that, Is there a way to shrink the repository
manually so it will contain the last N generations?


- Tzury