[git-users] Truncate complete history

2013-07-10 Thread ironm4nchen
Hello everyone, I have a repo with a size of ca 4 gb and the history is longer than 10 years. Now I want to truncate this history to the last 3 years. I tried some things but nothing works really. What would be the best approach to truncate the history? Do I need to remove all tags and branches

[git-users] Re: Truncate complete history

2013-07-10 Thread ironm4nchen
Thanks for your answer. I already tried the BFG Repo Cleaner, but while running it craches with this Exception : org.eclipse.jgit.errors.LargeObjectException$ExceedsLimit:. It looks like one commit is bigger than the 5 mb cache limit. I do have a look at the grafts / filter-branch functionalit

[git-users] Git is consuming very much RAM

2013-07-15 Thread ironm4nchen
Hello everyone, I have got a problem with my bare repository with the size of 4 GB. I experience some strange memory usage at cloning or fetching. Git consumes about 30 GB RAM for these commands, but this is not the real problem. The real problem takes place at the client, while cloning and bef

Re: [git-users] Git is consuming very much RAM

2013-07-16 Thread ironm4nchen
I dont know exactly. The history goes back to 15 years and the biggest files are some sql dumps (around 20-25 MB). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send a

Re: [git-users] Git is consuming very much RAM

2013-07-16 Thread ironm4nchen
As an addition to my answer, the repository contains to 99,99% just source code files. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubsc