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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
	Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:22:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4709CCB2.4000202@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710080204140.4174@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> The rationale was this: filter-branch recently learnt how to rewrite many 
> branches, and it might be tedious to find out which ones.  But then, there 
> is git log --no-walk --all, so maybe I really should get rid of 
> refs/original/*?
> 
> I'd like to have some comments from the heavier filter-branch users on 
> that...

IMHO, a backup of the original refs is needed. However, it may be wise to 
store them in the refs/heads namespace so that 'git branch -d' can delete 
them and 'git branch -m' can move them back if something went wrong.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-08  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-07 21:23 Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 21:38 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-10-07 22:00   ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 22:19     ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-07 22:24       ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 23:40         ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-08  0:09           ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08  6:15             ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-08  9:23               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-07 23:43         ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08  0:22           ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08  1:06             ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08  9:27               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-08 10:05                 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-08 12:40                 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-08 13:01                   ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-07 23:19     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 23:24       ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-07 23:28         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 23:38           ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08  0:34             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-08  0:47               ` Elijah Newren
2007-10-08  2:28                 ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-08  1:00               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-08  1:06                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-08  6:22                   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-10-08 14:36                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-08 16:37                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-08 19:05                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-09 10:37                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 22:08 ` Alex Riesen

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