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From: Stas Cherkassky <scherkas@gmail.com>
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
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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