Crushed by a giant packfile

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 11:14 +0000, Chris McCormick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've RTFM and done a bit of an internet search, but I can't find anything which
> will help me with my problem, which i this: our otherwise small repository of
> web code has one giant 250mb pack file which means a fresh checkout takes ages
> on our slow connection. I am wondering if there is some way to find out which
> change introduced this huge pack file, or compress it, or some other strategy
> to make our repository more manageable which doesn't involve us starting our
> revision history from scratch? Sorry if this question is cheeky.
> 
> Thanks for all your hard work on this excellent Free Software.

If the 250MB is spurious - that is contains data not in your history, it
won't affect the time to branch or checkout substantially.

Otherwise, it is in you history and as Alexander says you need to
rewrite your history to get rid of it.

-Rob
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