On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 09:17:02PM +0300, без имени wrote:

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Are there any plans to add a --filter parameter to git gc as well,
that would be able to prune past history of objects and convert them
back into pack promises?

This operation will change the hash, and hence the history. I tried to
draw attention to a specific trick:

I don't think this is quite the same thing. Simon is just talking about
the partial-clone system.  The files are still mentioned in history, but
the client does not store the matching blobs themselves. Instead, it can
fetch them on-demand from a remote repository.

-Peff