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From: Stas Cherkassky <scherkas@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: collapsing old git history to reduce repo size, while preserving commit #s and tags
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:52:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSXqrrMCWmRBoRNCLuD6DvU=CSk+MVGrSOCeOROROEaKouVKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSXqrr7rHxyXX=_+xgJ4FW2UHSts2jRt7zwrkkw1L3uKHnCtw@mail.gmail.com>

Andrew,

Shallow clone (if that's what you meant) is not suitable because it
doesn't allow to push/pull to/from this shallow repository.

I understand that generally git is designed to preserve the history.
But the problem is real,  and probably is not unique to our project.
The fact that there ARE some ways to modify history (collapse commits,
rebase, filter-branch) made me hopeful that what I need is also
possible..

thanks,
Stas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-30  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAJSXqrr4nA6azBgaD7rBbYSLWonQkn7PvSsPTXjAPaxW6E+LiA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-10-29 22:42 ` collapsing old git history to reduce repo size, while preserving commit #s and tags Stas Cherkassky
2013-10-29 22:52   ` Andrew Ardill
     [not found]     ` <CAJSXqrr7rHxyXX=_+xgJ4FW2UHSts2jRt7zwrkkw1L3uKHnCtw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-10-30  7:52       ` Stas Cherkassky [this message]
2013-10-30 15:55         ` Jakub Narębski
2013-10-30 16:06           ` Duy Nguyen

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