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From: "Øyvind Harboe" <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Problems getting rid of large files using git-filter-branch
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:59:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c09652430901061359q7a02291fk656ab23e54b19f5e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I'm trying to get rid of some large objects in my .git repository
using git-filter-branch. These are remnants from conversion from
CVS.


Q1: How can I figure out what it is in .git that takes so much space?

Q2: Where can I read more about what to do after running git-filter-branch to
removing the offending objects?



1. I ran this command to get rid of the offending files and that appears to
have worked. I can't find any traces of them anymore...

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'find . -regex ".*toolchain\..*" -exec
rm -f {} \;' HEAD

2. Running "git gc" takes a few seconds. The repository is still
huge(it should be
perhaps 10-20mByte).

du -skh .git/
187M    .git/

3. I tried "git reflog expire --all" + lots of other tricks in the
link below, but no luck.



I tried the tricks I could find in this thread, but no luck:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/60219/match=trying+use+git+filter+branch+compress

-- 
Øyvind Harboe
http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html
ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex
JTAG debugger and flash programmer

             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-06 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06 21:59 Øyvind Harboe [this message]
2009-01-06 22:20 ` Problems getting rid of large files using git-filter-branch Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-06 22:36   ` Øyvind Harboe
2009-01-07 10:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 10:15       ` Øyvind Harboe
2009-01-07 12:45         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-07 18:18       ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-01-06 22:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-01-06 22:41   ` Øyvind Harboe
2009-01-06 23:17   ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2009-01-07  0:56     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-01-07  8:26 ` Øyvind Harboe
2009-01-07 15:02   ` Nicolas Pitre

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