Housekeeping is here for .git about asetalias.github.io HOT 3 CLOSED

Wait, how is this a good first issue?
For people who don't have much experience with Open-source & prob git and are looking for thier first issue, housekeeping git might not be the right thing to start on xD.

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I agree, I had a perspective of someone be able to learn more about git, amd how it works internally by doing this task. Reassessing, yes definitely not a good first issue

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Well, I was just taking a look to see how reasonable it would be to work on this and I don't know if it is honestly. It looks like most of the large size is due to existing/previous versions of existing images.

I just made a fresh clone, then ran

git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-a0a3d6c2cbc90fce318270c3aaad78c9af0c293e.idx | sort -k 3 -n | cut -c-41 | tail -150 >> tmp.txt

to get the shas of the largest 150 commits. Then to get the file names,

git rev-list --objects --all | grep -f tmp.txt

It looks like most of them are presently existing files in images/ and fonts/. And while I wish I could run a command to find the exact files that could safely be removed from history, I'm not that skilled with git.

My suggestion, if low first-clone-size is at all a priority, you should gitignore all images and from previous commits, and then just store your images somewhere else other than github. Though, it seems like that's more work than it's worth. It is only the first clone after all.

Just FYI 👍

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