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Re: git repack with a --reference

From
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
May 7, 2009, 05:57 UTC
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Jonathan Harker <jonathan@catalyst.net.nz> writes:
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> Hi - hope this isn't too noobish but I'm trying to get an existing git
> checkout to repack/prune/gc itself such that it would be like I had
> cloned it with --reference /path/to/local/repo (i.e. I've added
> /path/to/local/repo to .git/objects/info/alternatives, and I'd like it
> to reduce its objects from 200 MB to 5 MB). Is this
>
> a. possible,
> b. desirable, and
> c. not insane?

I've done this in the past (using "git gc", but same difference I guess), and it worked as you'd hope, reducing .git to something very small.

I don't recall any real problems, but you might need to manually remove any pack ".keep" files first though (I seem to recall something like that, anyway).

-Miles
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