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Re: Is there a way to trim old SHAs from a git tree (so it's not so large)?

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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 15, 2006, 22:16 UTC
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<20061115221616.GD24861@spearce.org>
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Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
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> After doing a "make mrproper" in my Linux git tree, the result is still 
> 1.1GB of files.  Compare that with just the tarball, which is just 
> one-forth the size.
> 
> Is there a way to "trim away" old commits from the repository, so that it 
> just doesn't take up that much space?  I don't care about any commits made 
> in 2005. As long as I can still do "git pull" from the source repo to 
>  update mine, that's good enough.
No.  However...

Have you tried "git repack -a -d" to repack the loose objects into a pack file? Doing this every so often should reduce your disk space consumed by a HUGE amount.

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