From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:24:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files
Message-ID: <51419b2c0710071524q16e9c593s2722dffc826e560d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071007221920.GF2765@steel.home>

On 10/7/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> rm -rf .git/refs/original/refs/heads/<the branch where HEAD pointed to>
> (assuming you haven't repacked yet)
>
> or just edit .git/packed-refs and remove everything "refs/original"
> which fits the criteria
>
> > So...how do I fix the reflog, and then repack to have a
> > pack under 11MB in size?
>
> git reflog expire --all (it is a bit to much. You can just edit
> .git/logs/* in any text editor)

So...

$ du -hs .
11M     .
$ rm -rf .git/refs/original/
$ vi .git/packed-refs
# Remove the line referring to refs/original...
$ git reflog expire --all
$ git gc --aggressive --prune
$ du -hs .
11M     .

It's still 11MB.

Any other ideas?

Elijah