bfg-repo-cleaner Questions
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I've always used an interface based git client (smartGit) and thus don't have much experience with the git console.
However, I now face the need to substitute a string in all .txt files from histo...
Televise asked 5/11, 2010 at 22:33
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This is a follow-up question from a previous question on Stackoverflow.
I've tried to remove large files from my local git history, but the tool (BFG Repo-Cleaner) suggested in this question state...
Winterize asked 17/7, 2016 at 18:34
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I've been advised to use the BFG Repo-Cleaner as my local repo that I want to push contains files too large to push to GitHub. These files (above about 50MB) I don't mind if they get deleted and I ...
Boride asked 10/9, 2022 at 15:35
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Very basic git question:
I uploaded some compromising information to Github and am using bfg to clean the repo. I followed the documentation and performed the following actions:
$ git clone --mir...
Seigler asked 6/1, 2014 at 22:47
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First this is different because this is for all branches not one. (All the ones I have found only specify this for a single branch at a time)
I work on a repo that has about 20-30 branches (long s...
Virility asked 15/3, 2016 at 18:34
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When cleaning the repo with BFG (https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/) ,encountered the following :
Protected commits
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These are your protected commits, and so their conte...
Piglet asked 5/4, 2017 at 12:22
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When running bfg I see:
Warning : no large blobs matching criteria found in packfiles - does the repo need to be packed?
How would I go about packing the repo?
Russom asked 13/5, 2020 at 8:29
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My team's repo on Bitbucket was 1.34GB due to some static assets (videos, images)
I've followed instructions from BFG Repo Cleaner
and my repo is now 2.37GB which is over our 2GB quota and it is ...
Zucker asked 16/10, 2019 at 11:25
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I am trying to use BFG Repo Cleaner to replace some text in one of my git repos.
I have downloaded and installed the jar file, but when I try to run the bfg command I get error "bfg: command not ...
Mak asked 23/1, 2019 at 23:1
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I want to delete two files from my git repo that aren't there anymore.
I put them in, committed, and tried to push but they were too large. So I took them out, and kept working, then committed, t...
Phellem asked 26/2, 2016 at 0:2
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Bitbucket is alarming that my Git repository is over 1 GB. Actually, in Repository details page it says it is 1.7 GB. That's crazy. I must have included large data files in the version control. My ...
Stickseed asked 28/2, 2015 at 9:24
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I am trying to clean up my git repository with BFG repo cleaner. So I did:
git clone --mirror https://github.com/FourierFlows/FourierFlows.jl.git
used BFG, e.g.,
java -jar bfg-1.13.0.jar --delet...
Rijeka asked 15/5, 2018 at 6:34
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I was going to ask this on the repository but SO seemed like a more fitting place to ask this.
I was able to use BFG Repo Cleaner (great tool, thank you!) to reduce our .git folder size by over 1G...
Shoreless asked 21/3, 2018 at 0:15
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I am trying to delete a file permanently from the Git history, because it contains sensitive data.
To do this, I am using bfg: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
The file is called app/co...
Chiou asked 20/7, 2017 at 15:22
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I found that BFG is much faster than the original git-filter-branch.
We have multiple svn repo to move to even more git repositories, this implies some repository folder merges and splits.
During ...
Mcardle asked 7/2, 2014 at 15:1
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I am using bfg to clean my git repo. To get the list of big files to delete, I use this script. However for some files I only want to delete specific versions of them from the repo.
bfg has the o...
Groh asked 1/7, 2017 at 5:54
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From the command line option I can not see that there is a way to see what bfg will do before doing it.
If I run this command:
$ bfg --strip-blobs-bigger-than 1M --replace-text banned.txt repo.gi...
Intrastate asked 16/5, 2017 at 9:13
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I am trying to reduce the size of a largish repo (~3.4 G) and bfg-repo-cleaner seemed like a perfect tool to to reduce the size of it.
I ran the tool as described in the docs but am only seeing mi...
Nedra asked 18/4, 2016 at 18:46
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I migrated from SVN to git and i had a note in each git commit referencing to SVN revision number.
After repo import i used BFG repo cleaner to clean git history from binary files and other trash. ...
Vibratile asked 21/11, 2016 at 13:25
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I am trying to delete multiple types of files which cannot be covered by a wildcard. I tried using multiple --delete-files but it won't accept it. Also tried putting the files all after one --delet...
Ut asked 1/8, 2016 at 18:38
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We have a self-hosted Gitlab instance.
I used BFG-Repo-Cleaner and everything went well, but when I try to push changes I get this:
remote: GitLab: You are not allowed to force push code to a pr...
Aphrodisiac asked 17/8, 2016 at 22:19
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I recently forked a project and after a few dozen commits, noticed there was some sensitive info I wanted to remove from a file. While wanting to remove that, either by undoing only my commits for ...
Abstraction asked 5/2, 2016 at 0:22
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I have large files and was attempting to use the new Git LFS system.
I posted this question - Git lfs - "this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB"
Edward Thomson correctly...
Inhibitory asked 12/11, 2015 at 12:35
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Reading the instructions for bfg repo-cleaner, the work flow seems like:
clone the repo using the --mirror option
strip the repo from unwanted items using bfg
use git gc to physically remove the ...
Fresh asked 21/4, 2015 at 7:31
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I have cleaned my repo with BFG Repo Cleaner using the following procedure:
$ git clone --mirror git://example.com/some-big-repo.git
$ java -jar bfg.jar --strip-biggest-blobs 500 some-big-repo.git...
Travelled asked 23/8, 2014 at 6:30
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