From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:05:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files
Message-ID: <20071008100559.GA9221@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4709F805.8050704@op5.se>

On 2007-10-08 11:27:33 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> 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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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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