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commitd0268de6d755c72ff375ec95a0cc0dbd99dc31e2[log] [tgz]
authorThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>Sat Feb 14 21:56:51 2009 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>Sat Feb 14 21:18:54 2009 -0800
treed086d45e73af378f3838a4d3f79ec06bd783ff03
parente9cc02f0e41fd5d2f51e3c3f2b4f8cfa9e434432 [diff]
Documentation: pruning recipe for destructive filter-branch

Add a section about how to shrink a repository's size after running
git-filter-branch to remove large blobs from history.

This comes up every week or so on IRC, and the commands required to
handle every case are not very newbie-friendly, so hopefully writing
them down somewhere leads to fewer questions.

It may seem contradictory to document fallbacks for older Gits in
newer docs, but we want to point people at this as a FAQ answer, and
they will frequently not have the newest version installed.

Thanks to Björn Steinbrink and Junio C Hamano for comments and
corrections.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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