Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:37:04 -0800, bruce <bruce.e.robertson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> Just idiocy on my part. Thanks. >> >> > On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:24:36 -0800, bruce <bruce.e.robertson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> In today's and older clones of https://github.com/mirrors/linux.git I >> >> find this object, 6fa98ea0ae40f9a38256f11e5dc270363f785aee, that I can't >> >> figure out how to eliminate^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hget rid of. I don't see it >> >> in 'git fsck', 'git gc --aggressive --prune' doesn't seem to prune it, >> >> can't see it via 'git log'. And yet >> >> >> >> linux/.git/objects/pack$ git verify-pack -v *.idx | grep 6fa98ea0ae40f9a38256f11e5dc270363f785aee >> >> 6fa98ea0ae40f9a38256f11e5dc270363f785aee blob 1519697 124840 515299673 >> >> 8231eaa31ce1107c1463deb6ec33f61618aedbb9 blob 67 63 515424513 1 6fa98ea0ae40f9a38256f11e5dc270363f785aee >> >> f21a8c1b9d47736fa4e27def66f04b9fe2b4bc53 blob 90 83 515424576 1 6fa98ea0ae40f9a38256f11e5dc270363f785aee >> > >> > Commit dee0bb9 (ASoC: Mark WM8962 Additional Control 4 register as volatile, >> > 2010-09-29) references this blob. > > It wasn't easy to find the commit. First I figured out at which path that file > was stored. Using git log -S'wm8962_reg[WM8962_MAX_REGISTER + 1]' I quickly > determined that the file was somewhere in sound/, more specifically > sound/soc/codecs/wm8962-tables.c. However a 'git log -- > sound/soc/codecs/wm8962-tables.c' did not show any commit. That was strange, > because 'git log -S'WM8962_MAX_REGISTER + 1' --name-status -- > sound/soc/codecs/' clearly shows that the file existed at some point in the > past. The commit is hidden from a simple 'git log' due to 'History > Simplification'. See the git-log man page. I added --full-history -p to the log > command, and searched in the pager for '6fa98e'. That revealed the commit which > references that blob: > > git log --full-history -p -- sound/soc/codecs/wm8962-tables.c Thanks very much for the elucidation. I really must RTFMs. Only 44.786 Kib lines. Porcelain (mostly) first. I just can't eliminate the reading I need to do. FWIW, I was somewhat perplexed by searching for c969f19f8fd17e600a16fe91aab66d86936cce0a in 'gitk -all'. It doesn't find it BUT if I use --select-commit=c969f19f8fd17e600a16fe91aab66d86936cce0a then positions to it. If I position away again it again can't find it. Bother! BTW, this was all occasioned by looking for unused large packed blobs as an educational exercise. Thanks again, Bruce -- 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