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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: Keeping org files under git - trimming the repository
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:31:13 -0500
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To: Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>
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Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org> writes:

> About a year ago, I decided to learn how to write "macros" in lisp and
> started by teaching myself about the after-save-hook.  I added a hook
> to auto commit every time I saved any org file.  My simple, small text
> file of todo items is now a giant git repository.
>
> At last a question or two: Does this happen to you? What do you do?
> What new git command do I need to learn in order to do it?

Have you tried running either "git gc" or "git repack" on the repo? I
find that running these two maintenance commands every once and a while
dramatically reduces the size of the repository.

Best,
Matt