Strip large files except for particular filetype/glob

rtyley / bfg-repo-cleaner

Removes large or troublesome blobs like git-filter-branch does, but faster. And written in Scala

https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Closed osdiab closed 5 years ago

osdiab commented 5 years ago

Hi, I'm trying to strip out all the uncompressed images from my website repo, but I don't want to remove relatively large Javascript sourcemaps.

So I run this command:

bfg --strip-blobs-bigger-than 800K --filter-content-excluding "*.js.map"

but it seems like --filter-content-excluding only applies to the text replacement functionalities, not to the --strip-blobs-bigger-than field.

Is there a way to filter those changes out, either via the tool, or with git commands somehow?

javabrett commented 5 years ago

If you find that BFG is unable to express the filtering you need, and you are not able to enhance it to do-so, then the standard workaround is:

Use scripting outside BFG to predetermine all the blob ids of files you want to delete. This could be simple or moderately complex depending on exact needs.
Feed that list to bfg ... --strip-blobs-with-ids ...

osdiab commented 5 years ago

OK, thanks for the tip! Will close, assume this is wontfix.