On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 03:06:42PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote: > On May 31, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@bec.de> wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 02:07:23PM +0200, Rhialto wrote: > >> I was looking at the git clone of the src repo > >> (https://github.com/netbsd/src) and I noticed that there are lots of > >> duplicate commits in there; some commits are even present 3 or 4 times. > >> At first I thought this occurs only with very old commits, but it is the > >> case for relatively recent ones as well. > > > > There is no way to force a GC on GitHub short of tearing down the repo > > completely AFAIK. > > Based on > > > https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository > > It looks like you might be able to request a GC from GitHub Support. > (I have no actual experience doing this, though; it’s just what I read. > Also, I guess it would be pointless if more unreachable commits will > be added right away as part of the normal conversion. But if the > unreachable commits are an artifact of an old conversion, then maybe > it would be worth asking for a GC.)
Yeah, not something worth to do before a final round. Joerg