On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:58, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As for pruning old history, I thought this *should* work for pruning > history older than 7 days (given that you dump daily): > > git rebase --strategy=base --onto master~8 master~7 > > But of course that deletes new commits. I need to freshen up on my > rebase understanding. Maybe someone else on list knows how to do > that. I thought git rebase --interactive might work, but I can't get > it to display the root commit. Maybe you need git-filter-branch. Thiago Macieira on #git provided the answer. You can do that with grafts and git filter-branch. E.g. rewriting the history so that you only have the 7 latest commits: git rev-list HEAD | sed '7q;d' > .git/info/grafts && test -s .git/info/grafts && git filter-branch -f HEAD -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html