How to remove stale files

[malaybasu]

Is there anyway to remove stale files from git-fat?

[abraithwaite]

It's not a command in git-fat, but heres a start: git fat status | sed '1,/Stale objects/d' | tr -d '\t'

That'll list all the stale objects.

[malaybasu]

Thank you for the reply and pardon my ignorance. Can I just delete those objects from .git/fat/objects? Is there anything like original "git fat gc" command?

[abraithwaite]

You don't need a pardon, it's a good question!

You can delete them from .git/fat/objects if you're certain they've been pushed to the central repository. Otherwise they'll be lost forever.

The git fat gc command was never reimplemented as a safety net to prevent people like myself from shooting themselves in the foot, but might still be useful with a fat warning message.

[malaybasu]

Thank you. Git history will still have a reference to original file, right? So if I revert back to a previous commit, the git fat file with the sha1 referece will come back, but the binary blob file will be missing. Will it create problem with git fat?

[abraithwaite]

You are correct entirely. If you check out that commit again and the blob is missing locally, you can do another git fat pull and assuming it's on the server it will download it and restore it again. :-)