I think that Steve's advice is way to drastic. It means you will lose
_all_ of your development history.
Why not just do 'git gc' (garbase collect)? Then, as Steve said, you
may need to 'git push <heroku-repository> --force'
Because Heroku will only checkout the master branch, I use the
following refspec in my config file when pushing to Heroku:
[remote "heroku"]
url = [email protected]:my-app.git
push = +HEAD:refs/heads/master
[push]
default = current
This means, push whatever branch I may be on to Heroku master.
The consequence of so many pushes to the master branch from other
branches is that Heroku's history of my project got muddles, so when I
tried pushed a new revision, things weren't loading, even though the
change was to a test file that is never run by Heroku. I fixed it by
deleting and rebuilding my app on Heroku, which I know may be time
consuming if you have a lot of add-ons. You may want to develop a
script if you have to do this more than once in a great while.
Of course, don't depend on Heroku to keep your main repository. Do
that on Github, or perhaps a shared-host where you have an account so
that it gets backed up daily. That way, if disaster strikes, you
still have a good backup.
On Jun 11, 4:52 am, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, If you really need to clean out the repo and start from a clean
> init (I personally think that its worth keeping just for the history)
> then you can do something along these lines (I haven't tried it so
> backup and double check before you do it).
>
> # find all the git files and remove them
> cd APP_DIR
> rm -rf `find . -name .git`
>
> #re init the repo
> git init
> git add .
>
> #check everything and commit
> git commit -m 'fresh repo after cleanup'
>
> # Then add heroku as a remote again
> git remote add [email protected]:APP_NAME.git heroku
>
> # Then force heroku to accept the new commit
> git push heroku master --force
>
> Like I said I haven't checked it so it might be worth making a copy of
> the app using a bundle or something and testing things first.
>
> Steve
>
> On Jun 8, 9:39 pm, Dan Z <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've got several apps where I need to re-init or clean out the
> > repository (partly to reduce the bundle size). Heroku doesn't support
> > direct access to the machine.
>
> > Is there some way (e.g. a git command) I can accomplish this without
> > creating a new app and pushing my clean repository to it?
>
> > The problem with that is that I'd have to re-add and configure all my
> > addons, and it would require DNS changes, which are a pain and involve
> > some downtime.
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