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diff --git a/tech/clear up a large git folder.txt b/tech/clear up a large git folder.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1003a5f --- /dev/null +++ b/tech/clear up a large git folder.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +To clean up a large .git folder, first see what the giant files are by running this command: + +git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-9987666e7a6a7ebb5abde337ba017dcf67534986.idx | sort -k 3 -n | tail -10 + +That will get a list of blogs, you can then run: + +git rev-list --objects --all | grep <first few chars of blok> + +to see what the actual files are that are taking up so much space. + +Assuming you want to get rid of the large files and clear that space, you can do that like this (assume you want to get rid of a bunch of .mov files): + +git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch *.mov' -- --all +rm -Rf .git/refs/original +rm -Rf .git/logs/ +git gc --aggressive --prune=now |