Big repository cannot be reduced

Big repository cannot be reduced

[Woody Wu]

Hi,

I have tried some methods introduced in the network, but always failed.  Some big files committed by me to a very old branch then the files deleted and new branches were continuously created. Now the checkout directory has grown to about 80 megabytes.  What's the right way to permenently erase those garbage big files?

Thanks in advance.
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Woody Wu from mobile phone

Re: Big repository cannot be reduced

[Michael Haggerty]

On 07/15/2014 09:43 AM, Woody Wu wrote:
> I have tried some methods introduced in the network, but always
> failed.  Some big files committed by me to a very old branch then the
> files deleted and new branches were continuously created. Now the
> checkout directory has grown to about 80 megabytes.  What's the right
> way to permenently erase those garbage big files?

You probably need to use "git filter-branch" or maybe BFG
(http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/) to rewrite history as if the
big files had never been committed.  But beware of the warnings about
rewriting history--for example, any collaborators will have to rebase
their branches onto the new history.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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