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diff --git a/doc/forum/Delete_unused_files__47__metadata.mdwn b/doc/forum/Delete_unused_files__47__metadata.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5c6b41399 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Delete_unused_files__47__metadata.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +After moving some files (about 1G, some big and some small files) in and out the annex, I noticed that the size of the repository has grown quite a bit. My empty repository now is over 100 MB (even after "git annex dropunused ..." and "git gc"). + +Most of this size is not Git metadata but many small files in the git-annex branch that seem to hold information about files I deleted (even in the other known repositories). + +So is there a way to get rid of these useless but space consuming information? + +(Maybe there is no (elegant) way to remove the symlink versions from the Git history (is there?), but it would already be nice if those small git-annex metadata files could be removed) |