Remove a big set of old commits and shrink git folder

Question

It's potentially a duplicated topic but the solutions founded here doesn't look enough.

We have a project with ~190MB of code and a git folder with ~6GB and a lot of commits that are not interesting anymore.

Supose my commits looks like:

A, B, C...Y, Z, AA, AB...FC, FD...GO

How I can delete history from B to FC plus shrink git folder and get only:

A, FD...GO

I believe that after that all developers should clone the repo again to avoid conflicts.

Again, sorry if it's a duplicated topic but I'm a bit confused about all the solutions for this kind of problem.

Are you *sure* the problem isn't binary blobs in your repository? — Todd A. Jacobs, Jul 23 '14 at 15:26
If the problem *is* binary blobs, then http://stackoverflow.com/a/24539614/6309 or http://stackoverflow.com/a/24693485/6309 — VonC, Jul 23 '14 at 15:27
@CodeGnome I'm sure it's not the problem. This project is old but still in production and I have a huge number of commits. — Max Bündchen, Jul 23 '14 at 20:33

hek2mgl · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-23T20:55:49.077

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To get rid of older history, you could make a clone using the --depth param:

git clone --depth NUMBER_OF_COMMITS_TO_FD file:///path/to/original newrepo

edited Jul 23 '14 at 20:55

answered Jul 23 '14 at 15:46

hek2mgl

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