From: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Lichtenheld" <frank@lichtenheld.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:24:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51419b2c0710071524q16e9c593s2722dffc826e560d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071007221920.GF2765@steel.home>
On 10/7/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> rm -rf .git/refs/original/refs/heads/<the branch where HEAD pointed to>
> (assuming you haven't repacked yet)
>
> or just edit .git/packed-refs and remove everything "refs/original"
> which fits the criteria
>
> > So...how do I fix the reflog, and then repack to have a
> > pack under 11MB in size?
>
> git reflog expire --all (it is a bit to much. You can just edit
> .git/logs/* in any text editor)
So...
$ du -hs .
11M .
$ rm -rf .git/refs/original/
$ vi .git/packed-refs
# Remove the line referring to refs/original...
$ git reflog expire --all
$ git gc --aggressive --prune
$ du -hs .
11M .
It's still 11MB.
Any other ideas?
Elijah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-07 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-07 21:23 Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 21:38 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-10-07 22:00 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 22:19 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-07 22:24 ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2007-10-07 23:40 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-08 0:09 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08 6:15 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-08 9:23 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-07 23:43 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08 0:22 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08 1:06 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08 9:27 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-08 10:05 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-08 12:40 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08 13:01 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-07 23:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 23:24 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 23:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 23:38 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08 0:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-08 0:47 ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08 2:28 ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-08 1:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-08 1:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-08 6:22 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-08 14:36 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-08 16:37 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-08 19:05 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-09 10:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 22:08 ` Alex Riesen
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