Hi Vger,
I'm trying to remove a directory of large binaries from a git
repository There is a directory of 85M in a git repository of
92M. So the binaries are relatively massive and should never have
been checked in in the first place. I've tried to use filter-branch
to permanently remove those binaries. The directory successfully
vanishes. However, the repository + working directory only goes from
216M down to 133M. That means the binaries were only removed from
the working directory. The repository remains bloated. I've tried
a handful of magic incantations using commands such as gc, prune,
reflog expire --all, etc.. None of these have worked. In fact,
after cloning the 133M (repo + working) and running gc the directory
actually increased in size from 133M to 290M!
I'm not really sure I understand what's going on here. It sounds
like the growth to 290M is a bug. If so I'm happy to provide the
repo as a test case as well as the exact commands I use. On the
other hand, I'm finding that the git API is complex enough that I
could easily be doing something wrong or missing some command. In
that case is there a simple set of commands I could use to remove a
directory of really large binaries that never should have been
checked in in the first place and reclaim the space ? I've checked
pretty thoroughly on Google to find people who have successfully done
this, but it seems mostly people have failed to actually reclaim space.
Cheers,
Juan
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