Re: git repack with a --reference

Jonathan Harker [off-list ref] writes:

Hi - hope this isn't too noobish but I'm trying to get an existing git
checkout to repack/prune/gc itself such that it would be like I had
cloned it with --reference /path/to/local/repo (i.e. I've added
/path/to/local/repo to .git/objects/info/alternatives, and I'd like it
to reduce its objects from 200 MB to 5 MB). Is this

a. possible,
b. desirable, and
c. not insane?

I've done this in the past (using "git gc", but same difference I
guess), and it worked as you'd hope, reducing .git to something very
small.

I don't recall any real problems, but you might need to manually
remove any pack ".keep" files first though (I seem to recall something
like that, anyway).

-Miles

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