> On Aug 17, 2017, at 10:33 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:28:00AM -0700, Kai Zhang wrote: > >> I have a git repository maintaining one large json file (along with >> several other small files). With commits for large json file, the >> repository become bigger and bigger, so I tried to run command "git gc >> --prune=now --aggressive" to reduce disk usage, then I found .git >> folder size did not change. I had wonderful experience with git gc >> against files around 10M to 20M, and I am wondering if there is any >> configuration need to tweak for large text files? >> >> Here I have more details: >> 1. Json file size: 1G > > Git won't try to delta-compress anything over 500MB by default. Try: > > git config core.bigfilethreshold 2G > git gc --aggressive > > -Peff It works! Thank you so much! Kai
