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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/
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Convert to Git LFS refuses to process wildcard '*.jar' #470

Open krachynski opened 1 year ago

krachynski commented 1 year ago

I have a curious behaviour while running bfg-1.14.0 in that running the command java -jar bfg-1.14.0.jar --convert-to-git-lfs '*.jar' --no-blob-protection <repo> just returns the answer BFG aborting: No refs to update - no dirty commits found??

I'm trying to run this because I know that there is an installerCommons.jar present in the repo's history that is over 100MB in size. Sure, I'm gopher hunting with a tactical nuke by trying to convert all JAR files to LFS attachments instead of only the one that exceeds GitHub's transfer limits. I also happen to have one single DLL file in the same situation and '.dll' catches all* of the DLLs in the repository's history as expected. Plus, running the command with 'installerCommons.jar' explicitly instead of the wildcard does properly filter out this one file.

Why does '*.jar' not process anything?

This is in PowerShell 7 on Windows 10.