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

From

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>

Date

Oct 7, 2007, 22:08 UTC

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<20071007220853.GE2765@steel.home>

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<51419b2c0710071423y1b194f22gb6ccaa57303029d1@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren, Sun, Oct 07, 2007 23:23:59 +0200:

> # Try to recompress and clean up, then check the new size
> git gc --aggressive --prune
> du -ks .                       # 10580K !?!?!?
> du -ks .git                    # 10564K

git-filter-branch makes a backup of your original references:

$ git filter-branch --help
...
       Always verify that the rewritten version is correct: The original refs,
       if different from the rewritten ones, will be stored in the namespace
       refs/original/.
...

These will keep your big files in repository.