From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:44:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511171443000.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <cda58cb80511171347yef4f090g@mail.gmail.com>



On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:

> 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