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Well well well. (lemmy.ml)
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Yeah learned this the hard way.

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Special shout out to the person who committed a gigabyte memory dump a few years ago. Even with a shallow clone, it's pretty darn slow now.

If you want to be the team's hero, I've had good luck removing old commits using git filter repo.

https://hibbard.eu/erase-sensitive-files-git-history-filter-repo/

We can't rewrite history to remove it since other things rely on the commit IDs not changing.

Oh right. Oof.

I would be working to arrange an accident for those other things. Those other things probably need to be retired.