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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing
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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:28:55 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Elijah Newren wrote:

> On 10/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Elijah Newren wrote:
> >
> > > So...how do I fix the reflog, and then repack to have a pack under 
> > > 11MB in size?
> >
> > Just clone it.  The clone will be much smaller.
> 
> $ 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.

Ciao,
Dscho