From: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:51:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: pruning recipe for destructive filter-branch
Message-ID: <20090214025115.615119bf@perceptron>
In-Reply-To: <1234545279-23153-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch>

Hi,

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:14:39 +0100, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
wrote:

> Add a section about how to shrink a repository's size after running
> git-filter-branch to remove large blobs from history.

Good idea.

> +* Expire all reflogs with `git reflog expire \--expire=now \--all`.
> +
> +* Repack to remove packed objects with `git repack -ad`.
> +
> +* Prune unpacked unreferenced objects with `git prune \--expire=now`.

Is the --expire=now actually needed for prune? The way I read it
git-prune(1), it defaults to pruning everything anyway.

-Jan