Elijah Newren, Mon, Oct 08, 2007 00:00:51 +0200: > On 10/7/07, Frank Lichtenheld <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:23:59PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: > > > The following set of instructions will duplicate my problem with a > > > smaller repo; why is the local git repository bigger after running > > > git-filter-branch rather than smaller as I'd expect? I'm probably > > > missing something obvious, but I have no idea what it is. > > > > The usual suspect would be the reflog. > > The git-filter-branch documentation mentions creating refs/original > under .git. Unfortunately, it doesn't contain any links or > documentation on how I'd clean those out and I haven't been able to > figure it out. I asked on #git how to clean these out and got some > answers that didn't work (git branch -d and something else I don't > remember). rm -rf .git/refs/original/refs/heads/<the branch where HEAD pointed to> (assuming you haven't repacked yet) or just edit .git/packed-refs and remove everything "refs/original" which fits the criteria > So...how do I fix the reflog, and then repack to have a > pack under 11MB in size? git reflog expire --all (it is a bit to much. You can just edit .git/logs/* in any text editor) - 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
