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Re: How to delete large files

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Oct 2, 2009, 11:41 UTC
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<C6EB1E10.D7AB%nilshomer@gmail.com>
Nils Homer <nilshomer@gmail.com> writes:
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> Still (using du ­h) the repository is 656MB and I can see the above files in
> the revision list:
> git rev-list --all --objects | grep tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
> ee2ee50c5075d05d29764c8d4b9acc2acedda919 tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
> e568480bcb8239e6d1ed8d2da86c309c0d3d101b tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
> f9f2faab597d4f8ccbfac2864347dbc256353fbf tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
> 926b1ba880a26354c4a6b9391985f57fbc9a1174 tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
> e3c0ee53f20e8ebfb60eaefcd7b405168c26a565 tests.long/save/save.tar.gz
>
> Could this be because of tags that I had previously created?

I guess so. Anything pointing to the old history will prevent Git from deleting it.

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Matthieu Moy
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