From: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:47:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository.
Message-ID: <cda58cb80511171347yef4f090g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511170817480.13959@g5.osdl.org>

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 ?

Thanks
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               Franck