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Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files

From
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date
Oct 7, 2007, 21:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20071007213817.GJ31659@planck.djpig.de>
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<51419b2c0710071423y1b194f22gb6ccaa57303029d1@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:23:59PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> The following set of instructions will duplicate my problem with a
> smaller repo; why is the local git repository bigger after running
> git-filter-branch rather than smaller as I'd expect?  I'm probably
> missing something obvious, but I have no idea what it is.
The usual suspect would be the reflog.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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