Notes on git cleaning
A 11 MB repo went to 10mb with these commands:
There will be nothing to commit 🤔
git gc --aggressive --prune=now
Squashing could be a solution
- But wont work if there are merge commits
Reset history:
- Copy and paste the bellow to reset repo to 1 init commit with all current files (Make a backup first, this series of commands are non recovarable)
git checkout --orphan newBranch git add -A git commit -m "Init" git branch -D master git branch -m master git push -f origin master git gc --aggressive --prune=all
- Ref: https://gist.github.com/stephenhardy/5470814
- bash script that does the same: https://gist.github.com/Zibri/76614988478a076bbe105545a16ee743
Alternative:
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'Initial commit'
git remote add origin [repo_address]
git push --mirror --force