Thomas JaroschExplain how to free up space after filter-branch. Thanks to Björn Steinbrink for pointing me in the right direction.
The v2 version of this patch uses "git repack -a -d" instead of "git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250" as this nocked down a box with 4GB of ram using a repository with medium sized binary files (50 - 100mb).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Show changes to Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +12 −0
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter- branch.txt index fed6de6..1432380 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -319,6 +319,18 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter \ mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE' HEAD --------------------------------------------------------------- +Free up the space in .git if the rewritten version is correct +by deleting refs/original and pruning the reflog: + +---------------------------------------------------- +git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/original + | xargs -i git update-ref -d {} + +git reflog expire --expire=0 --all +git repack -a -d +git prune +---------------------------------------------------- + Author ------