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bhr
bhr

Reputation: 131

changes are different merge request from gitlab activity

I am trying to reduce the size of .pack file in git repository. I have removed few uncessary objects in .pack file and pushed back to my developer branch. When I check my activity in gitlab: enter image description here

But My merge request shows as follows: enter image description here

Can someone explain me why merge request shows 49781 additions instead of deletions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 106

Answers (1)

krisz
krisz

Reputation: 2696

You can't merge rewriting of histories. You have to force push to master.

Master still has all the objects, merging would just add the rewritten commits to it, but not remove anything from its history.

But that still leaves other branches and tags that refer to the old objects and will prevent them from being deleted. You also want to update your tags anyway.

You should redo the filter on all branches and tags by appending --tag-name-filter cat -- --all to the filter command. Refer to the git-filter-branch documentation on how to properly shrink the repository.

git filter-branch <...> --tag-name-filter cat -- --all

rm .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
git push -f origin 'refs/remotes/origin/*:refs/heads/*'
git push -f --tags
git fetch

You need to use the same filter (or one that deletes at least as much or more) so your develop branch won't be completely different from the other branches, or reset develop to the state before you filtered it.

Upvotes: 1

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