From: Nils Homer <nilshomer@gmail.com>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: How to delete large files
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:03:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6EB1E10.D7AB%nilshomer@gmail.com> (raw)
I wish to delete some large offending files (10MB to >100MB each) from my
git repository (git://bfast.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/bfast/bfast). The
current size of the repo is 656MB.
I created a backup of my repository and then searched for such offending
files using a script found here:
http://stubbisms.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/git-script-to-show-largest-pack-ob
jects-and-trim-your-waist-line/
where I modified the script to output in MB instead of KB.
This gave me a list of files that I wanted to delete:
-e size pack SHA
location
113 113 f9f2faab597d4f8ccbfac2864347dbc256353fbf
tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
113 113 926b1ba880a26354c4a6b9391985f57fbc9a1174
tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
113 113 e568480bcb8239e6d1ed8d2da86c309c0d3d101b
tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
113 113 e3c0ee53f20e8ebfb60eaefcd7b405168c26a565
tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
103 103 ee2ee50c5075d05d29764c8d4b9acc2acedda919
tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
35 35 319c75945c27096093dbab5a0bf6a9a08089bc2d
tests.long/data/data.tar.gz
11 11 805193c74ceeffca9da3a2788545e701d77e1caf tests/save/save.tar.gz
11 11 658e4a78c1028875ab597d6bde5823cd6a1694b9 tests/save/save.tar.gz
So I decided to remove these files using:
git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch
tests.long/save/save.tar.gz tests.long/data/data.tar.gz
tests/save/save.tar.gz" HEAD
I then ran:
rm -rf .git/refs/original
git reflog expire --expire=now ‹all
git gc --prune=now
Still (using du h) the repository is 656MB and I can see the above files in
the revision list:
git rev-list --all --objects | grep tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
ee2ee50c5075d05d29764c8d4b9acc2acedda919 tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
e568480bcb8239e6d1ed8d2da86c309c0d3d101b tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
f9f2faab597d4f8ccbfac2864347dbc256353fbf tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
926b1ba880a26354c4a6b9391985f57fbc9a1174 tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
e3c0ee53f20e8ebfb60eaefcd7b405168c26a565 tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
Could this be because of tags that I had previously created?
I am running git version 1.6.3.3. I appreciate any help in advance,
Nils Homer
next reply other threads:[~2009-10-02 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-02 10:03 Nils Homer [this message]
2009-10-02 11:41 ` How to delete large files Matthieu Moy
2009-10-02 12:26 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-02 13:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-10-02 19:20 ` Nils Homer
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