Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 8, 2007, 09:23 UTC
Message-ID: <4709F70F.4040700@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20071008061511.GA2859@steel.home>

Alex Riesen wrote:

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> Elijah Newren, Mon, Oct 08, 2007 02:09:50 +0200:
>> On 10/7/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> you missed something. Your example compresses to about 124k.
>> What version of git are you running?  I reran all the steps to which
> 
> git version 1.5.3.4.225.g31b973 (irrelevant custom modifications)
> 
>> you responded (repeated below for clarity) with git-1.5.3.3 and still
>> get 11MB.  Also, you must have different filesystem extents than me
>> since an empty git repo takes 196k here[1], so I don't think any repo
>> is going to get down to 124k.
> 
> it is ext3. I do not install the hooks (~8k apparent, ~32k fs blocks)
> and never activate logs by default.
> 
>> # Use vi to remove the line referring to refs/original...
>> git reflog expire --all
> 
> another part of the suggestion re reflogs was to look into the logs,
> to check if expire actually removed anything. It seems to have been
> the culprit.
>

On my system, running git version 1.5.3.3.131.g34c6d,

	git reflog expire --all

does absolutely nothing.

	git reflog expire --expire=0 --all

truncates all the reflogs. I'm not sure if this is intended or not.

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