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

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Tzury Bar Yochay schrieb:

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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.

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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.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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