From 69e7a1d29776176f094b8b3a4103b3f78128d92a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlcfH7xkyz1kyG_neK4GcFFfFWuIY7l_6A" Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 22:55:20 +0000 Subject: Added a comment: large scale rewrite tips --- .../comment_5_3062c0794ecd7c6237efae66f4d9b62f._comment | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/tips/How_to_retroactively_annex_a_file_already_in_a_git_repo/comment_5_3062c0794ecd7c6237efae66f4d9b62f._comment 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) + +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3