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NCAR / WVD-MCSupdate

Addition of NCAR MCS, rewrite to software infrastructure, and expansion of features for WVD operations.
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Clean bloated repo #287

Closed stillwer closed 4 years ago

stillwer commented 4 years ago

The repository originally had some very large drivers pushed into it. The history will have been removed and the whole repo should be smaller now. That said, I am going to use this issue to note what and how that repo cleaning process happened.

stillwer commented 4 years ago

I found a program online (bfg) that seemed to be the most common way of removing bloat. I downloaded that program and put it in the directory containing the repo. I then ran the following commands:

Remove installers: java -jar bfg-1.13.0.jar --delete-folders BaseSoftwareForGIT WVD-MCSupdate cd WVD-MCSupdate git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive cd .. (Reduced repo size from 3.0GB to 580MB)

java -jar bfg-1.13.0.jar --delete-files *.exe WVD-MCSupdate cd WVD-MCSupdate git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive cd .. (Reduced repo size from 580MB to 501MB)

java -jar bfg-1.13.0.jar --strip-blobs-bigger-than 15M WVD-MCSupdate cd WVD-MCSupdate git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive cd .. (Reduced repo size from 501MB to 484MB)

git push origin --force --all git push origin --force --tags

stillwer commented 4 years ago

The new repo needs to now be re-cloned and deleted from the following computers: 1) MPD00 (bz-ece-bhlidar) 2) MPD01 (eol-dial2) 3) MPD02 (eol-dial4) 4) MPD03 (eol-dial5) 5) MPD04 (eol-dial1) 6) MPD05 (eol-dial7) 7) MPDSpares (eol-dial6, eol-dial8) 8) roberts-pc 9) eol-uter 10) eol-cuttlefish 11) eol-trapper

stillwer commented 4 years ago

The following computers are done: eol-dial1, eol-dial4, eol-dial5, eol-dial6, eol-uter, robert-pc

stillwer commented 4 years ago

Just checked...bz-ece-bhlidar, eol-dial2, eol-dial7, eol-uter, and fog.eol.ucar.edu are also done.

eol-cuttlefish and eol-trapper have been wiped so I think that is everything.

stillwer commented 4 years ago

Helpful websites: https://support.acquia.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007137493-Removing-large-items-from-your-site-s-Git-history https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ http://erikimh.com/optimizing-a-previously-large-and-bloated-git-repository/