[patch] documentation: Explain how to free up space after filter-branch
From: Thomas Jarosch <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:46
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Explain how to free up space after filter-branch. Thanks to Björn Steinbrink for pointing me in the right direction. Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <redacted>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index fed6de6..1432380 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt@@ -319,6 +319,18 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter \ mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE' HEAD --------------------------------------------------------------- +Free up the space in .git if the rewritten version is correct +by deleting refs/original and pruning the reflog: + +---------------------------------------------------- +git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/original + | xargs -i git update-ref -d {} + +git reflog expire --expire=0 --all +git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250 +git prune +---------------------------------------------------- + Author ------