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Re: Leaving large binaries out of the packfile

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jun 10, 2010, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID
<20100610180457.GO14847@spearce.org>
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<4C108556.8040102@workspacewhiz.com>
Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> wrote:
> Sometimes, 'git gc' runs out of memory.  I have to discover which file  
> is causing the problem, so I can add it to .gitattributes with a  
> '-delta' flag.  Mostly, though, the repacking takes forever, and I dread  
> running the operation.

If you have the list of big objects, you can put them into their own pack file manually. Feed their SHA-1 names on stdin to git pack-objects, and save the resulting pack under .git/objects/pack.

Assuming the pack was called pack-DEADC0FFEE.pack, create a file called pack-DEADC0FFEE.keep in the same directory. This will stop Git from trying to repack the contents of that pack file.

Now run `git gc` to remove those huge objects from the pack file that contains all of the other stuff.

-- 
Shawn.
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  3. Paolo BonziniJun 11, 2010
  4. Shawn O. PearceJun 11, 2010
  5. Joshua JensenJun 24, 2010

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