Cleanup tool for old blobs in partial clone
- From
- Miłosz Kosobucki <mikom3@gmail.com>
- Date
- Dec 11, 2020, 12:03 UTC
- Message-ID
- <6446f471-87ed-9fc4-fd54-61c5cf95a218@gmail.com>
Hello,
I recently looked into the partial clone functionality and how it could be used to replace Git LFS.
Let's say that I use partial clone where one directory is filtered out through --filter=sparse:oid=XXX. Let's also say it's a directory with big assets for a computer game.
Now, as the project progresses and new versions of assets are checked in, I'll accumulate many version of these assets as I get new versions. I won't need them though, because most of the time I'm interested only in the latest version.
So my question is: is there some tool (probably similar to git lfs prune) that will let me get rid of the blobs that I don't need anymore?
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 regards,
-- Miłosz Kosobucki