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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts•com>
Cc: Abscissa <bus_nabble_git@semitwist•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: SVN -> Git *but* with special changes
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:44:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq62kc36kn.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16808473.33899.1317229852319.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> (Stephen Bash's message of "Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:10:52 -0400 (EDT)")

Stephen Bash <bash@genarts•com> writes:

>> 2. Keeping binary files in version control isn't a big deal because
>> the whole repo doesn't get copied to everyone's system or use up 
>> people's GitHub storage space.
>
> I'd eliminate these on the SVN side before converting to Git. If you
> have svnadmin access to the SVN repo svnadmin dump, svndumpfilter,
> svnadmin load is a pretty easy process.

Otherwise, you can do it on the Git side with:

  git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f some-large-blob'

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-28 16:37 SVN -> Git *but* with special changes Abscissa
2011-09-28 17:10 ` Stephen Bash
2011-09-28 17:44   ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2011-09-28 19:07     ` Jeff King
2011-09-28 18:03   ` Abscissa
2012-01-07 22:30   ` Abscissa
2011-09-28 19:04 ` Jeff King
2012-01-08  5:03   ` Abscissa
2012-01-08  5:10     ` Jeff King
2012-01-08  5:17       ` Abscissa
2012-01-08  5:25         ` Abscissa
2012-01-08 10:33           ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-01-08 10:47             ` Andreas Schwab
2012-01-08 12:08               ` Adam Borowski
2012-01-08 22:28                 ` Abscissa
2012-01-08 23:38                   ` Abscissa
2012-01-12 21:52                     ` Abscissa
2012-01-14  3:43                       ` Abscissa
2012-01-09  8:26                   ` Michael Haggerty
2012-01-08 11:24           ` Thomas Hochstein
2012-01-08 11:20         ` Thomas Hochstein

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