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

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2007, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <51419b2c0710071500x318ee734n9db6ca9e6daa3196@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071007213817.GJ31659@planck.djpig.de>

On 10/7/07, Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> wrote:

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> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:23:59PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > The following set of instructions will duplicate my problem with a
> > smaller repo; why is the local git repository bigger after running
> > git-filter-branch rather than smaller as I'd expect?  I'm probably
> > missing something obvious, but I have no idea what it is.
>
> The usual suspect would be the reflog.

The git-filter-branch documentation mentions creating refs/original under .git. Unfortunately, it doesn't contain any links or documentation on how I'd clean those out and I haven't been able to figure it out. I asked on #git how to clean these out and got some answers that didn't work (git branch -d and something else I don't remember). So...how do I fix the reflog, and then repack to have a pack under 11MB in size?

Thanks, Elijah