From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
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
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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