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Script to remove commits older than a specified date

How can I delete commits older than X days?

The reason I want to do this is because the repo has gotten a pretty big value, filtering and gc no longer help, and we no longer need commitments over 5 years old. There are only 4 developers in this repo.

Is there a script that can automate this?

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I get two options:



  • Create a new repository by cloning the original repo using an argument --depth=N

    ; it will create a new history, keeping in history only N

    . Then all developers will move to this new repository.

    To find out what should be N

    you can use the following

    git log --format=oneline HEAD@{5 years ago} | wc -l

    This, however, will overwrite all your SHA1 transactions.

  • To keep your SHA1, you would use git replace

    splitting the story in two, following this blog post .

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