Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files
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Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
- Date
- Oct 8, 2007, 10:05 UTC
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- <20071008100559.GA9221@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
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- <4709F805.8050704@op5.se>
On 2007-10-08 11:27:33 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> Dmitry Potapov wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:22:28PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: > > > > > What other scenarios could lead to unreachable references? > > > > Any re-writing of history leads to that. > > git-rebase being the most common culprit, right alongside 'git > commit --amend'.
StGit (and presumably guilt, and any other similar tool) are just glorified rebase wrappers, so they'll generate tons of unreachable objects too.
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