Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After doing a "make mrproper" in my Linux git tree, the result is still > 1.1GB of files. Compare that with just the tarball, which is just > one-forth the size. > > Is there a way to "trim away" old commits from the repository, so that it > just doesn't take up that much space? I don't care about any commits made > in 2005. As long as I can still do "git pull" from the source repo to > update mine, that's good enough. No. However... Have you tried "git repack -a -d" to repack the loose objects into a pack file? Doing this every so often should reduce your disk space consumed by a HUGE amount. -- Shawn. - 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