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Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository.

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Nov 17, 2005, 22:44 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0511171443000.13959@g5.osdl.org>
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:
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> 2005/11/17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:
> >
> > What you probably _can_ do is to find whatever top-most commit you want
> > (say, the v2.6.0 commit), and use grafting to make that have no parents.
> > Then you can do git-prune to get rid of everything under it.
> >
> 
> ok that's what I was trying to do by killing the parent object.  Now
> when looking a the graph using gitk all old objects have been removed.
> But I'm suprised because the git repository is the same size as it was
> before pruning all old objects. Can you explain why ?

make sure you re-pack if it was packed. "git prune" will not remove packs at all, so..

		Linus
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