On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 07:44:24PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > I'd eliminate these on the SVN side before converting to Git. If you
> > have svnadmin access to the SVN repo svnadmin dump, svndumpfilter,
> > svnadmin load is a pretty easy process.
>
> Otherwise, you can do it on the Git side with:
>
> git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f some-large-blob'
It's much more efficient to do:
git filter-branch --index-filter \
'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch some-large-blob'
which avoids checking out the large files over and over[1], just to
delete them. Of course, it's even more efficient not to import them from
svn in the first place. :)
-Peff
[1] This is straight from the filter-branch manpage, btw.
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