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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository.
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:44:09 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511171443000.13959@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cda58cb80511171347yef4f090g@mail.gmail.com>



On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:

> 2005/11/17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:
> >
> > What you probably _can_ do is to find whatever top-most commit you want
> > (say, the v2.6.0 commit), and use grafting to make that have no parents.
> > Then you can do git-prune to get rid of everything under it.
> >
> 
> ok that's what I was trying to do by killing the parent object.  Now
> when looking a the graph using gitk all old objects have been removed.
> But I'm suprised because the git repository is the same size as it was
> before pruning all old objects. Can you explain why ?

make sure you re-pack if it was packed. "git prune" will not remove packs 
at all, so..

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 12:24 [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository Franck
2005-11-16 16:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-17 10:36   ` Franck
2005-11-17 16:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-17 21:47       ` Franck
2005-11-17 22:44         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-11-19 12:23           ` Franck
2005-11-19 12:45             ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-19 20:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-19 17:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-19 19:52               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-21 20:11                 ` Franck
2005-11-21 20:45                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-22  9:22                     ` Franck
2005-11-22  9:50                       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-22 10:40                         ` Franck
2005-11-22 17:06                           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-22 19:10                             ` Franck
2005-11-16 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-16 20:01   ` Martin Langhoff
2005-11-16 20:10     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-16 20:35     ` Junio C Hamano

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