From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind_Harboe?=" Subject: Migration problems from SVN Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:09:31 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 06 13:10:58 2009 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 1LKAlt-0004a2-U7 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:10:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751515AbZAFMJe convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:09:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751436AbZAFMJe (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:09:34 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:33920 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751147AbZAFMJd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:09:33 -0500 Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so23906958bwz.13 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:09:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=PTo+3rBDi3hBLlHfRH/MdD6j6GR28hSYkWTNQLZphwQ=; b=dd0FI/niEOCtJSehIngHuV8YkeCG6gtFoR+hWTGY85X3S9HHroNsKzdysr8kVoYZzM EGxermgry7W9ppbZf9QPjT8E3mLQ4U3HZnKEE3Hk/CORs9tuABOfHk+iLg1tKe1N7053 4nbWblTA3/0U/H3ZsXbypjJe6Z5C27TlSQ5Cs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=pwbjC09luhBcWAf/5HvWXhXl3bdLId/ooYl9a9pbjLSji+vAFimEm1EHHrzLPN/kwi WbwQlfa2fUOS09k3DRy0t7m2N81UH1q4mBcolj+E3aw/WGu6w3880t//YOpvqo4L7ZB9 NboCF86mhKiQYFVv6xBzYy3uwXXJ2vbAYnRAg= Received: by 10.223.104.140 with SMTP id p12mr15402351fao.7.1231243771636; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.121.142 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 04:09:31 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4bbf46999b289130 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi all, I'm trying to migrate from svn to git, but has run into a snag for whic= h I haven't found any good solutions on the web: If I early on and accidentally commit a *large* binary object, how do I= get rid of it from .git again? svn copes with this reasonably well as the binary object will no longer= be downloaded if it is deleted. Also when converting old SVN repositories, such objects needs to be pruned. Somewhat related I also need to enume= rate the offending large binary objects that I should get rid of. It is unpractical to live by the rule that no big objects should ever be committed accidentally given the number of people involved and the walks of life = they come from.... So there really needs to be some way to deal with this once th= e damage has been done. --=20 =D8yvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer