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| author |  http://joeyh.name/ <http://joeyh.name/@web> | 2013-09-04 06:43:26 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-09-04 06:43:26 +0000 |
| commit | 4727d56d29be3060b1ea443a9c66c884b9e50a5c (patch) | |
| tree | e128b39a934bb522b9a01a39729fd269d3b25a7b /doc | |
| parent | 46aa16df4a80e698d1a894e4516aa28537e360eb (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/How_to_delete_a_remote__63__/comment_2_33c429ffa7e9e2ed9c5fac760ee8e82c._comment b/doc/forum/How_to_delete_a_remote__63__/comment_2_33c429ffa7e9e2ed9c5fac760ee8e82c._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2866710c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_to_delete_a_remote__63__/comment_2_33c429ffa7e9e2ed9c5fac760ee8e82c._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="2001:4830:1600:187::2" + subject="comment 2" + date="2013-09-04T06:43:26Z" + content=""" +Recently git-annex has gotten the ability to do this: `git annex forget --drop-dead` + +That prunes all history relating to all dead remotes. You need to be running a git-annex that supports this on all computers you use the repos on, or the pruned history will get merged back in. + +I don't recommend doing this just because you want to \"clean history\". Think of it as something you can do at some point in the future if the .git/objects somehow gets too large or too slow. Put off deleting data until tomorrow if you don't absolutely need to do it today. +"""]] |