Re: Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable

["Alex Bennee" <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Alex Bennee schrieb:
>  You really shouldn't do it this way, unless you do it on a ramdisk. Better
>  use an --index-filter. This is modeled after the last example in the man
>  page (and, of course, untested):
>
>  git filter-branch --index-filter \
>         'git ls-files -s |
>          grep -v "      big_dira" |
>          grep -v "      big_dirb" |
>                 GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \
>                         git update-index --index-info &&
>          mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE' HEAD
>
>  where the space before big_dir is actually a literal TAB!

Hmm thats odd. Despite having successfully run the filter my repo is
still the same size. git-fsck --full shows loads of dangling commits
but I'm guessing because the repo is packed they don't get dropped. Is
it possible to repack the whole repo or do you have to manually unpack
the packs and re-pack?


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