tada! That worked! Question: How come I cannot use fossil shun <a large file sha1> from a command line? I can only shun from the ui? That makes it difficult to automate if there are hundreds of files to shun. :(
Thanks for fossil. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:22 PM, <sky5w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Ok, that removes the file from display, but the size of my repo has >> been permanently grown by the unwanted large file. >> Is that by design? > > > Try "fossil rebuild --vacuum" and let us know if that fixes it. > >> >> I am right back at the beginning of this post. >> What if I or some other developer or some virus added ~../*.* ? >> Would I/Should I be forever saddled with the new size of my repo? >> >> Wait! I ran a vacuum from within SQLiteExpert and my repo is back to >> its original size! >> >> I know someone mentioned vacuum back many replies. But that did not >> work on my earlier and real repo because I had shunned the commit >> artifact, not the file in question. >> >> So now I get it. >> 1. Shun the file(s) artifacts. >> 2. Rebuild. >> 3. Vacuum. >> >> Thanks! >> >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:51 PM, <sky5w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Ok, >> >> Tried all previous suggestions and no go. >> >> Had a chance to do something very simple, but my experience was the >> >> same. >> >> I add a single LARGE file to my repo. >> >> I commit. >> >> I delete that LARGE file. >> >> I commit. >> >> I rebuild. >> >> The repo file size still contains the LARGE file in the blob table. >> >> Can I delete the offending blob record and recover my original repo >> >> file >> >> size? >> > >> > >> > Find the SHA1 hash of the large file. You can probably do this doing >> > "fossil ui" and looking under the "Files" menu. >> > >> > Shun just that one SHA1. Do *not* try to shun any other checkins or >> > other >> > files. Just the one file you want to get rid of. >> > >> > After shunning, run rebuild to permanently delete the file. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > D. Richard Hipp >> > d...@sqlite.org >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > fossil-users mailing list >> > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >> > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > > > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
