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pushing a delete-only commit consumes too much traffic

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BIBasin Ilya <basinilya@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 25, 2018, 14:15 UTC
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Hi list. I had a 60Mb worth of unneeded jar files in the project. I created a new branch and performed `git rm` on them. Now while I was pushing the change the counter of sent data reached 80Mb. Why is that?

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