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

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jan 7, 2009, 00:56 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901061948590.26118@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20090106231726.GB13379@cuci.nl>

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

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> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, ?yvind Harboe wrote:
> >OK, try this:
> 
> >	git pull file://$(pwd)/../my_repo.orig
> 
> Alternately, try:
> 
> rm -rf .git/ORIG_HEAD .git/FETCH_HEAD .git/index .git/logs .git/info/refs \
>   .git/objects/pack/pack-*.keep .git/refs/original .git/refs/patches \
>   .git/patches .git/gitk.cache &&
>  git prune --expire now &&
>  git repack -a -d --window=200 &&
>  git gc

This might not be sufficient. Or at least you better run 'git prune' at the very end, and possibly add -f to 'git repack'. And if you somehow delete something you shouldn't have deleted then you're really screwed, whereas the pull method in another repository doesn't alter the original repository in case you need to go back to it and try something different.

Nicolas