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| author |  josch@9a7314a25217c684aba3754f3eb9f915b4c8cb39 <josch@web> | 2016-08-04 06:45:47 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2016-08-04 06:45:47 +0000 |
| commit | ff777a66b3d2ba3034555c4e83a5f6950aad3a49 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ea4df8d32ade6720e7610c73e4945c1c72f3092 | |
| parent | 1bfd6e84612079a59ea5a09a16faa8010aaf567a (diff) | |
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/__34__git_annex_unused__34___doesn__39__t_find_unused_files_after_git_history_was_rewritten.mdwn | 17 |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/__34__git_annex_unused__34___doesn__39__t_find_unused_files_after_git_history_was_rewritten.mdwn b/doc/forum/__34__git_annex_unused__34___doesn__39__t_find_unused_files_after_git_history_was_rewritten.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cbf9770c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/__34__git_annex_unused__34___doesn__39__t_find_unused_files_after_git_history_was_rewritten.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Hi, + +I recently cleaned my git history using: + + git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf personal/Mail' --prune-empty HEAD + git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git update-ref -d + git gc + +I then ran: + + git annex unused + +But was surprised to find that it didn't report any unused files. Not surprisingly (given that I didn't touch the annex data at all so far), when looking into `.git/annex/objects/` I still find the content of all the files that are now not used anymore. + +Is there a way to clean these up besides creating a fresh clone of the repository? + +Thanks! |