Re: Is there a way to control the number of revisions will be saved by git

Tzury Bar Yochay schrieb:

Hello Happy Gitters,

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.

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.

-- Hannes