I just glanced at git-filter-branch.sh (and I must say I was
incredibly surprised to find out it was a shell script) and it seems
it never runs git-gc or git-repack. Doesn't that end up with the same
problems as git-svn sans git-repack when filtering a large number of
commits? I was just thinking, if I were to git-filter-branch on my
massive repo (in fact, the same repo that started this thread, with
over 33000 commits in the upstream svn repo), even if I just do
something as simple as change the commit msg wont I end up with
thousands of unreachable objects? I shudder to think how many
unreachable objects I would have if I pruned the entire dports
directory off of the tree.
Am I missing something, or does git-filter-branch really not do any
garbage collection? I tried reading the source, but complex bash
scripts are almost as bad as perl in terms of readability.
-Kevin Ballard
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