From 45c23e2fc40cbfa35b5e85d5d228420c04bbed26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://joeyh.name/" Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 06:43:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment --- ...mment_2_33c429ffa7e9e2ed9c5fac760ee8e82c._comment | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/How_to_delete_a_remote__63__/comment_2_33c429ffa7e9e2ed9c5fac760ee8e82c._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/How_to_delete_a_remote__63__/comment_2_33c429ffa7e9e2ed9c5fac760ee8e82c._comment b/doc/forum/How_to_delete_a_remote__63__/comment_2_33c429ffa7e9e2ed9c5fac760ee8e82c._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2866710c8b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_to_delete_a_remote__63__/comment_2_33c429ffa7e9e2ed9c5fac760ee8e82c._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="2001:4830:1600:187::2" + subject="comment 2" + date="2013-09-04T06:43:26Z" + content=""" +Recently git-annex has gotten the ability to do this: `git annex forget --drop-dead` + +That prunes all history relating to all dead remotes. You need to be running a git-annex that supports this on all computers you use the repos on, or the pruned history will get merged back in. + +I don't recommend doing this just because you want to \"clean history\". Think of it as something you can do at some point in the future if the .git/objects somehow gets too large or too slow. Put off deleting data until tomorrow if you don't absolutely need to do it today. +"""]]