Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tzury Bar Yochay schrieb: > > Say I wish to save only 100 generations back (per branch). > > Is it possible to configure git so it will save only N records back. Why would you want that, by the way? > No. > > > If git cannot be configured for that, Is there a way to shrink the > > repository manually so it will contain the last N generations? > > Yes: > > $ git rev-parse HEAD~$N >> .git/info/grafts > $ git filter-branch HEAD > > This assumes that your history is strictly linear and you do not have > tags. It also rewrites the $N commits so that they now have different > SHA1s. For this reason, don't share this repository with anyone - it leads > to confusion. Or just use shallow clone git clone --depth <depth> <repository> to have new copy (clone) of <repository> to have only <depth> commits back. See man git-commit; but it might be not what you want. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
