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> On Aug 17, 2017, at 10:33 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:28:00AM -0700, Kai Zhang wrote:
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>> I have a git repository maintaining one large json file (along with
>> several other small files). With commits for large json file, the
>> repository become bigger and bigger, so I tried to run command "git gc
>> --prune=now --aggressive" to reduce disk usage, then I found .git
>> folder size did not change. I had wonderful experience with git gc
>> against files around 10M to 20M, and I am wondering if there is any
>> configuration need to tweak for large text files?
>>
>> Here I have more details:
>> 1. Json file size: 1G
>
> Git won't try to delta-compress anything over 500MB by default. Try:
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> git config core.bigfilethreshold 2G
> git gc --aggressive
>
> -Peff