From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:06:21 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <51419b2c0710071423y1b194f22gb6ccaa57303029d1@mail.gmail.com> <20071007213817.GJ31659@planck.djpig.de> <51419b2c0710071500x318ee734n9db6ca9e6daa3196@mail.gmail.com> <51419b2c0710071624v79dc02d2g35a265add50dd46d@mail.gmail.com> <51419b2c0710071638p6dcc0c7cm2a813c22758e6f32@mail.gmail.com> <20071008010033.GA25654@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Elijah Newren , Frank Lichtenheld , git@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 08 03:06:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ieh5C-00013d-CD for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:06:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758213AbXJHBGn (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:06:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758103AbXJHBGm (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:06:42 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:53953 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758222AbXJHBGl (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:06:41 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Oct 2007 01:06:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [172.17.38.182]) [38.99.84.33] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 08 Oct 2007 03:06:39 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19N0DctSkZNJJVRB14P4zlN5s7SGnhocR53PdXC6y CzlsTx+MNfAnn1 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20071008010033.GA25654@fieldses.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:34:07AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > It does what it should do. It is _your_ task to look at refs/original/* > > if everything went alright. Then you just delete the checked refs. > > It seems odd to me, by the way, that filter-branch has its own > home-grown backup mechanism. Lots of other commands can "lose" commits, > but none of them keep an extra backup like this. The rationale was this: filter-branch recently learnt how to rewrite many branches, and it might be tedious to find out which ones. But then, there is git log --no-walk --all, so maybe I really should get rid of refs/original/*? I'd like to have some comments from the heavier filter-branch users on that... Ciao, Dscho