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Re: Problems getting rid of large files using git-filter-branch

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 6, 2009, 22:20 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901062319070.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> Q1: How can I figure out what it is in .git that takes so much space?
If it is a pack that is taking so much space:
$ git verify-pack -v $PACK | grep -v "^chain " | sort -n -k 4
and then for the last few lines do a
$ git rev-list --all --objects | grep $SHA1

Hth, Dscho

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