Re: Is there a way to control the number of revisions will be saved by git

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 3, 2008, 12:58 UTC
Message-ID: <m3ljuxifer.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <49366C03.5080506@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Tzury Bar Yochay schrieb:

> > Say I wish to save only 100 generations back (per branch).
> > Is it possible to configure git so it will save only N records back.

Why would you want that, by the way?

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> No.
> 
> > If git cannot be configured for that, Is there a way to shrink the
> > repository manually so it will contain the last N generations?
> 
> Yes:
> 
>   $ git rev-parse HEAD~$N >> .git/info/grafts
>   $ git filter-branch HEAD
> 
> This assumes that your history is strictly linear and you do not have
> tags. It also rewrites the $N commits so that they now have different
> SHA1s. For this reason, don't share this repository with anyone - it leads
> to confusion.

Or just use shallow clone

  git clone --depth <depth> <repository>

to have new copy (clone) of <repository> to have only <depth> commits back. See man git-commit; but it might be not what you want.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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