Re: Cleanup tool for old blobs in partial clone

From: Miłosz Kosobucki <mikom3@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 15, 2020, 21:41 UTC
Message-ID: <3b90b261-7920-671a-6566-70cd97b8d0e4@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD2ibGdznacrC=Sf6pZtzEiGJ7v+2L8PbM3m2PDdSBoYYg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Christian.

On 13.12.2020 11:10, Christian Couder wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:07 PM Miłosz Kosobucki <mikom3@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been playing a bit with partial clone (see
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD35kk10FpUnPpiAUzTHJbm=SJ-76OTmkTwBstGFe3Zgdw@mail.gmail.com/),
> and I started working on `git repack` and the underlying `git
> pack-objects`, so that `git repack -a -d --filter=...` could work. I
> cannot promise anything about when it will be submitted, merged,
> released, etc.
> 
> Also I have been working on it on the server side though, where it's
> ok to get rid of everything that is stored elsewhere. It might not be
> your case, but on the client side one might want to keep the (large)
> blobs that can be reached directly from the tip of some branches,
> which might require further work.
> 
>> I couldn't find information about it anywhere in the docs. I vaguely
>> remember a mention of something like that possibly being done in the
>> future in partial clone (or maybe promisor remote?) patch mails but I
>> couldn't find it again.
> 
> Best,
> Christian.
>

Thank you very much for this detailed information, and thanks for all the great work you and the git community are doing.

Best,

-- 
Miłosz Kosobucki