Re: Remove "historical" objects from repository to save place

From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Date: Jan 21, 2006, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID: <200601220046.34151.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wz1mjy8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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On Saturday 21 January 2006 22:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>
> You might be able to cauterize the history at a specific commit
> and then re-clone.  I've talked about how in "[QUESTION] about
> ..git/info/grafts file" thread yesterday, so I won't repeat that.

thank you, quite complete description. One question - any caveats in using git ls-remote to fetch graft point?

echo $(git ls-remote 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git v2.6.15 
| cut -f1) > .git/info/grafts

etc

this avoids downloading over 1G in the first place.

regards

- -andrey
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