Re: Problems getting rid of large files using git-filter-branch

["Øyvind Harboe" <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
>
>> Q1: How can I figure out what it is in .git that takes so much space?
>
> If it is a pack that is taking so much space:

it is.

>
> $ git verify-pack -v $PACK | grep -v "^chain " | sort -n -k 4

I have never used the git verify-pack command, but I'm pretty sure the
"Terminated" string isn't the normal output :-)

$ git verify-pack -v
.git/objects/pack/pack-1e039b82d8ae53ef5ec3614a3021466663cc70a4
Terminated

This is running git version 1.6.1. on CentOS on a virtual machine. I'm not quite
sure how to debug this. I'm sure I've done something wrong when I installed git.
I'm just a humble user of git trying to convert from cvs/svn.


> and then for the last few lines do a
>
> $ git rev-list --all --objects | grep $SHA1

I was able to run this procedure on a different machine than the
server and I can
then tell which objects take up all the space.

However, I'm unnerved by git verify-pack "Terminated"'ing on me above
and I'll have
to sort that out before I can think about using git in production.


Thanks for the pointers though! They definitely answered my questions!

>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>



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