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shime / vim-livedown

Vim plugin for Livedown.
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Huge gif image causes git and plugin managers to fail #13

Closed rafi closed 8 years ago

rafi commented 9 years ago

Commit 2580179f introduces a huge gif file, 4.5mb, even though commit d1b7a04e removes that gif, it is still stored in git's history and causes a fresh git clone to take ages, and under certain internet connections - fail.

To completely remove demo.gif from Git history, you'll need to rewrite the tree:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f demo.gif' HEAD
git gc
git push --force
shime commented 9 years ago

Hm, yeah I've noticed that. Thought it would not be a problem since you can avoid it by just cloning with git clone --depth 1, if you're worried about the size.

Rewriting history is something I would avoid all the time, but since there is no external package manager (like npm) being used here, things will not get too messy if I did that.

I'll think about it before I release the new version, thanks.

shime commented 8 years ago

I've just rewritten the tree with the commands you've specified, but unfortunately the repo size remains the same.

john-kurkowski commented 8 years ago

D'oh! And now vim-plug can't fast forward to the latest version. Users will have to uninstall vim-livedown and reinstall.

shime commented 8 years ago

Just rewritten the entire history of this repo to shrink its size. Sorry for the mess.