Hi, On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:02:06 +0100 Justin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 150mb adn it shrinked with git gc --agressive down to 120mb. > > > > What I did was pulling other overlays as branch, doing an > > filterbranch and only merging certain thing. perhaps this is > > something different than branching the repo itself. > > > and of course deleted the branches afterwards This can be a bit confusing, but even though these branches are deleted they are still saved as refs in your repository. Only after a certain time they get cleaned up by git gc. Have a look at the configuration section of # git help gc In particular, look at the value of gc.reflogExpire you are currently using. Cheers, Benjamin
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