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| author |  https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlcfH7xkyz1kyG_neK4GcFFfFWuIY7l_6A <Primiano@web> | 2015-01-06 22:55:20 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2015-01-06 22:55:20 +0000 |
| commit | 69e7a1d29776176f094b8b3a4103b3f78128d92a (patch) | |
| tree | f2993072bbe478f53ee46673c89f1ba61c86dfe1 /doc/tips/How_to_retroactively_annex_a_file_already_in_a_git_repo | |
| parent | fe616b279422fbd67d25f44d1ee1fc54ee56675c (diff) | |
Added a comment: large scale rewrite tips
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diff --git a/doc/tips/How_to_retroactively_annex_a_file_already_in_a_git_repo/comment_5_3062c0794ecd7c6237efae66f4d9b62f._comment b/doc/tips/How_to_retroactively_annex_a_file_already_in_a_git_repo/comment_5_3062c0794ecd7c6237efae66f4d9b62f._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e8ef98d99 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/How_to_retroactively_annex_a_file_already_in_a_git_repo/comment_5_3062c0794ecd7c6237efae66f4d9b62f._comment @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlcfH7xkyz1kyG_neK4GcFFfFWuIY7l_6A" + nickname="Primiano" + subject="large scale rewrite tips" + date="2015-01-06T22:55:20Z" + content=""" +I recently had the need of re-kind-of-annexing an unusually large repo (one of the largest?). +With some tricks and the right code I managed to get it down to 170000 commits in 19 minutes and extracing ~8GB of blobs. +Attaching the link here as I feel it might be helpful for very large projects (where git-filter-branch can become prohibitively slow) + +[https://www.primianotucci.com/blog/large-scale-git-history-rewrites](https://www.primianotucci.com/blog/large-scale-git-history-rewrites) + +"""]] |