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Yes once it gets bad enough your only option is to abandon and move the source code only. Your old repo has the history pre abandon.
by firesteelrain 1y ago
Yes once it gets bad enough your only option is to abandon and move the source code only. Your old repo has the history pre abandon.
- bobmcnamara 1y agoThere is a trick for this, where you can setup a new repo to consider another as pre-initial-commit source of history.
- firesteelrain 1y agoDoes that cause all the binaries in LFS to come over too?
- bobmcnamara 1y agoI can't imagine it would If you were moving both git and LFS. The old repo will still be pointed to whatever the LFS config was at that time. If that service is still up, it should continue to work.
- firesteelrain 1y agoAh my point is even with LFS enabled and you don’t store them external to git that the binaries are still totally part of the history (and really slow down cloning) In my case, with a 25GB repo, it was really detrimental to performance