[git-users] Re: Remove files and folders permanently from all commits, history and pack files
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:41:20 PM UTC+2, cemico wrote: I have a git project in which all files are of about 700 MB size. In the .git folder lies a pack file which is 1.13 GB (Gigabyte) I accidently commited files and folders, which don't have to be under version control. How do i remove let's say a concept_art folder from all commits (i have about 50 commits by now) and from the pack file? I tried many things now. e.g: - http://dound.com/2009/04/git-forever-remove-files-or-folders-from-history/ - http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ - filter-branch with rm - git gc with prune=now and aggresive and the thing i thought which must really work: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History#The-Nuclear-Option:-filter-branch None of the above work as expected or better: None work like i need it to work. Some delete all commits (the most do that), some don't delete the files from all commits, all(!) don't make the pack file smaller after deleting all files and folders i don't want. You're not giving us a lot to work with here. What were the commands you made? What was the output? What was the expected output? What i need is: - Exclude files and folders from my repo - Delete all references to theses files and folders from all commits - But don't delete any old commit - Rewrite the pack file, so that not any of the excluded files and folders are in it What is the way to achieve that? Filter-branch is the fallback tool when you know exactly want, and you don't mind the work of finding the right command to write, plus waiting for it to run (can take some time in large repositories). Be aware that even after running filter-branch your repo will still be pretty big until you rinse out all the old stuff. Here's an example I ran on some repos a while back: # remove folders 'sandbox' and 'servers', and prune all empty commits: git filter-branch -f --index-filter git rm -r -f --cached --ignore-unmatch sandbox servers --prune-empty # clean away original refs left behind by filter-branch: git for-each-ref --format=%(refname) refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git update-ref -d # empty reflog: git reflog expire --expire=now --all # remove remotes: git remote rm origin # remove work tree changes: git reset --hard # clean up: git gc --aggressive --prune=now Remember to always make backups before you start filter-branching! -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[git-users] Re: Edit git patches with --minimal diff option
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:44:59 AM UTC+2, Taowei Luo wrote: When running git diff or git format-patch, we know we may get a more simply patch by --minimal option. I also want to split the changes in a file to several patches. So I use git add -e or git add -p or git add -i. My problem is I can't get these two things together. Say, using git add -e to edit patches on the minimal changes of a file. (It seems the --minimal is not a default option and not even an option for git add) Anyone has ideas about this? I'm not sure what the question is here. Do you just want to have patches/diffs of the things you've staged? git diff --staged patch oughta do that.. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[git-users] Re: Remove files and folders permanently from all commits, history and pack files
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:04:23 AM UTC+2, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: Oh, that's what I get for reading this list oldest - newest :) Duplicate post got some answers already here: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/git-users/HSVsp6Xv7OE/discussion -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [git-users] Git and binary files ... once more
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 05:21:50AM -0700, Dominik Rauch wrote: Hi! Although I've read a lot of resources concerning the topic Handling binary files with Git I'm still confused. Hopefully you can help me to find definitive answers :-) If you ask people about Git and binary files the answers are often: Git is a SCM and not a backup solution or dependences should be referenced via Maven/NuGet/etc. only. Regarding the second argument: it is not always possible for us to do that, and the situation is (unfortunately) not going to change anytime soon. Therefore we want to know Git's limits before switching from Subversion to Git. Quantity of binary data: Some of our projects have up to 500MB of library dependencies which are updated (in parts) every two to three weeks. However, the files are not too big by themselves, they are around 250 files ranging from 200KB to 10MB. Main question: The existence of tools like git-annex, git-fat, git-media, etc. hints that Git has problems with binary files in some way. Although I've studied as much internal docs as I could find, I could not find a clue why Git should handle binary files any worse than Subversion did. - Yes the repository size may get huge, however, initial cloning is a one-time process and does not affect our company too much. Does Git even have a problem with binary files? What's the problem exactly? How does Subversion handle this in a better way? Is it about single files which are very huge (e.g. 3D models with more than 500MB file size) or are many small binary files a problem as well? Is it about initial cloning time only or does it affect the everyday work (committing, branching, etc.) as well? Let me make an attempt at turning this around a little. Why do you look at your VCS to solve a build problem? Your project has external dependencies on libraries. You wish to keep build times down by providing pre-built and vetted versions of these libraries. Exactly which version to use is a build-time problem, why would you want to use a VCS to encode your build configuration? Why not keep the build configuration nearer the build instructions (e.g. in a make file, or use CMake's ExternalData)? And why rely on your VCS to distribute your external dependencies, why not use rsync (to distribute either the latest or all versions) or CMake's ExternalData? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. -- The Peter Principle pgpYfwQnY7o40.pgp Description: PGP signature
[git-users] Installing GIT on Ubuntu 12.04
Hi everybody, I want to install git on my computer with ubuntu 12.04 but when I put the next code sudo apt-get install git on my terminal, it shows me that the package git was removed or it doesn't exist. Please help me, I really need to use GIT -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [git-users] Installing GIT on Ubuntu 12.04
I haven't used Ubuntu in a while, but a few years ago it was called git-core, not git. On 17 Jul 2014 11:54, Ellick Marquez ellick.cr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I want to install git on my computer with ubuntu 12.04 but when I put the next code sudo apt-get install git on my terminal, it shows me that the package git was removed or it doesn't exist. Please help me, I really need to use GIT -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[git-users] Clone the git without tags.
Hi
I want to create bare git project without tags using clone.
But there is no option like --no-tags.
Is there any way to clone without tags like below?
$ git clone {path}/test.git --no-tags --mirror
Thank you.
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Re: [git-users] Git and binary files ... once more
I'm not trying to solve a problem in our build system with a VCS. I'm trying to find out if we can safely switch from Subversion to Git without running into performance problems and furthermore I'm trying to find out more about the internals of Git and where all those rumors of Git is not able to handle binary files originate from. Best regards, Dominik -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [git-users] Git and binary files ... once more
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 03:08:40AM -0700, Dominik Rauch wrote: I'm not trying to solve a problem in our build system with a VCS. I'm trying to find out if we can safely switch from Subversion to Git without running into performance problems and furthermore I'm trying to find out more about the internals of Git and where all those rumors of Git is not able to handle binary files originate from. Well, and why are you interested in finding that out? My point is that you *already have* solved a build problem with your existing VCS, and now you are exploring whether you can move to Git with that solution intact. AFAICS this is what prompted you to find out more about Git's internals and its handling of binary files. All I'm trying to do is offer another perspective on your issue, where the premises change and your concern about Git's handling of binary files simply goes away. Of course you may completely disregard anything I write :) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. -- Martin Fowler pgpcQqSVCbKmE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [git-users] Installing GIT on Ubuntu 12.04
On 07/17/2014 12:12 AM, Ellick Marquez wrote: Hi everybody, I want to install git on my computer with ubuntu 12.04 but when I put the next code sudo apt-get install git on my terminal, it shows me that the package git was removed or it doesn't exist. Please help me, I really need to use GIT To install you have to use sudo apt-get git-core But 12.04 gives you git 1.7.0.4. If you want the latest version check out my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~pdoes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Currently it has version 2.0.2 available for Ubuntu versions: - 10.04 (Lucid) - 12.04 (Precise) - 13.10 (Saucy) - 14.04 (Trusty) Just add the PPA and use sudo apt-get install git. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [git-users] Re: Git and binary files ... once more
From: Dominik Rauch dominik.rauch@gmail.com (c) the estimated upper limits to work with a repository in reasonable time on a normal machine (i.e. if my repository reaches 20GB and all of a sudden it takes five minutes per commit, etc.) Most of the cases where this sort of behavior is seen come from thrashing, where the memory demand of the program exceeds the available memory. So you can look for these problems in advance by asking What situations cause Git to consume a great deal of memory? From: Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net 1) Git always compresses objects it writes; and after a certain threshold it compacts loose object files into the so-called packfiles which are big indexed archives. What matters is that all these [de]compression operations are performed in core -- that is, a file is slurped in, operated upon then written out. So you ought to have enough free physical memory to do all of that. However, you can limit the size of the pack files that Git will generate through configuration: [pack] packSizeLimit = 99m There may be ways to force Git to not attempt to compress files that are above a certain size. Doing that will probably eliminate most situations where Git attempts to consume excessive memory. Dale -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
