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git repack --drop-filtered

Option to Git's repack command that rebuilds a partial clone's promisor pack without blobs matching a filter and then deletes the redundant packs, refusing to drop blobs the current index references.

Known aliases

--drop-filtered

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Current clusters

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One blob in the index blocks git's unreleased --drop-filtered from reclaiming any disk

A 397 MiB repo filtered to 36 MiB at clone time grew back to 360 MiB after ten checkouts of old commits. The reclaim command merged for git 2.56 exits 128 when the index still lists a filtered blob.

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Evidence70
Adoption10
Hype gap−5
Incentives20
Confidence63