Document how to better reclaim space

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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Document how to better reclaim space #448

Open bdejean opened 3 years ago

bdejean commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I've just reclaimed 1GB of free space in a local repository because unreachable objects (deleted by BFG, listed with git fsck --unreachable) were still present in pack files. So the dirty data was still there. git repack -ad does the trick!