Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files

["Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>]

On 10/7/07, Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:23:59PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > The following set of instructions will duplicate my problem with a
> > smaller repo; why is the local git repository bigger after running
> > git-filter-branch rather than smaller as I'd expect?  I'm probably
> > missing something obvious, but I have no idea what it is.
>
> The usual suspect would be the reflog.

The git-filter-branch documentation mentions creating refs/original
under .git.  Unfortunately, it doesn't contain any links or
documentation on how I'd clean those out and I haven't been able to
figure it out.  I asked on #git how to clean these out and got some
answers that didn't work (git branch -d and something else I don't
remember).  So...how do I fix the reflog, and then repack to have a
pack under 11MB in size?

Thanks,
Elijah