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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 21, 2006, 16:32 UTC
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Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
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> Thomas Kolejka wrote:
> 
> >Is it possible to do this with shallow clone? 
> 
> Maybe.  How do you do a shallow clone?  I tried "git clone" followed by 
> "git-repack", and that helped a lot, but the result was still twice the 
> size of a normal tarball.  I don't see any "shallow" option to the clone 
> command, and git-shallow-pack doesn't exist on my installation.

Twice the size of a normal tarball isn't too bad, considering that you have the _complete_ history in the pack and yet the normal tarball has no history at all.

Shallow clone is a development feature still being working on in Junio's 'pu' branch of git.git. It has a few issues still to be worked out so it hasn't been made part of one of the more stable branches yet (like 'next', 'master', or 'maint').

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Message 7 of 19 in “Is there a way to trim old SHAs from a git tree (so it's not so large)?”
  1. Timur TabiNov 15, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceNov 15, 2006
  3. Timur TabiNov 15, 2006
  4. Shawn PearceNov 15, 2006
  5. Thomas KolejkaNov 17, 2006
  6. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  8. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  9. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  10. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  11. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  12. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  13. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2006
  14. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  16. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2006
  17. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  18. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  19. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2006

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