Re: Duplicate commits in git clone of src

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 03:06:42PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> On May 31, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 02:07:23PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> >> I was looking at the git clone of the src repo
> >> (https://github.com/netbsd/src) and I noticed that there are lots of
> >> duplicate commits in there; some commits are even present 3 or 4 times.
> >> At first I thought this occurs only with very old commits, but it is the
> >> case for relatively recent ones as well.
> > 
> > There is no way to force a GC on GitHub short of tearing down the repo
> > completely AFAIK.
> 
> Based on
> 
>   https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository
> 
> It looks like you might be able to request a GC from GitHub Support. 
> (I have no actual experience doing this, though; it’s just what I read.
> Also, I guess it would be pointless if more unreachable commits will
> be added right away as part of the normal conversion.  But if the
> unreachable commits are an artifact of an old conversion, then maybe
> it would be worth asking for a GC.)

Yeah, not something worth to do before a final round.

Joerg