From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Is there a way to trim old SHAs from a git tree (so it's not so large)? Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:11:57 -0600 Organization: Freescale Message-ID: <455B90AD.3060707@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:12:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061101 SeaMonkey/1.1b Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSzG-00046L-TN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:12:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161909AbWKOWMB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:12:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161881AbWKOWMB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:12:01 -0500 Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.165.103]:57064 "EHLO de01egw02.freescale.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161883AbWKOWL7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:11:59 -0500 Received: from de01smr02.am.mot.com (de01smr02.freescale.net [10.208.0.151]) by de01egw02.freescale.net (8.12.11/de01egw02) with ESMTP id kAFMPvRp025436 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:25:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.82.19.119] (ld0169-tx32.am.freescale.net [10.82.19.119]) by de01smr02.am.mot.com (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id kAFMBwID011014 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:11:58 -0600 (CST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org After doing a "make mrproper" in my Linux git tree, the result is still 1.1GB of files. Compare that with just the tarball, which is just one-forth the size. Is there a way to "trim away" old commits from the repository, so that it just doesn't take up that much space? I don't care about any commits made in 2005. As long as I can still do "git pull" from the source repo to update mine, that's good enough. -- Timur Tabi