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, 23:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20071007234039.GH2765@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <51419b2c0710071524q16e9c593s2722dffc826e560d@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren, Mon, Oct 08, 2007 00:24:49 +0200:

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> On 10/7/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > rm -rf .git/refs/original/refs/heads/<the branch where HEAD pointed to>
> > (assuming you haven't repacked yet)
> >
> > or just edit .git/packed-refs and remove everything "refs/original"
> > which fits the criteria
> >
> > > So...how do I fix the reflog, and then repack to have a
> > > pack under 11MB in size?
> >
> > git reflog expire --all (it is a bit to much. You can just edit
> > .git/logs/* in any text editor)
> 
> So...
> 
> $ du -hs .
> 11M     .
> $ rm -rf .git/refs/original/
> $ vi .git/packed-refs
> # Remove the line referring to refs/original...
> $ git reflog expire --all
> $ git gc --aggressive --prune
> $ du -hs .
> 11M     .
> 
> It's still 11MB.
> 
> Any other ideas?

you missed something. Your example compresses to about 124k.