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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 17:38:55 -0600
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Hi,

On 10/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Elijah Newren wrote:
<snip>
> > $ git clone test test2
> > <snip>
> > $ du -hs test
> > 11M     test
> > $ du -hs test2
> > 11M     test2
> >
> > Any other ideas?
>
> Yep.  Maybe it is necessary to run "git gc" in test2.

Sweet, finally solved!  That brings test2 down to 340K.

However, the solution seems somewhat involved...it requires running
git-filter-branch, git reset, removing the .git/refs/original/
directory, editing .git/packed-refs in some editor, running git reflog
expire, cloning the resulting repository, and running git gc yet
again.  It seems like there has to be an easier way.  (Anyone have
one?)

Oh, and git-filter-branch could really use some explanatory note about
how to actually complete rewriting the history.

Thanks,
Elijah