Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files
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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
- Date
- Oct 8, 2007, 06:22 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
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> The rationale was this: filter-branch recently learnt how to rewrite many > branches, and it might be tedious to find out which ones. But then, there > is git log --no-walk --all, so maybe I really should get rid of > refs/original/*? > > I'd like to have some comments from the heavier filter-branch users on > that...
IMHO, a backup of the original refs is needed. However, it may be wise to store them in the refs/heads namespace so that 'git branch -d' can delete them and 'git branch -m' can move them back if something went wrong.
-- Hannes