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    Rewrite repo size reduction docs · 526da962
    James Ramsay authored
    Purging data from a Git repo can be useful for different reasons,
    including making cloning faster, or reducing repo size on the GitLab
    server. The first is easy, the second is hard.
    
    Documentation has been rewritten to use `git filter-repo` which is the
    leading repo rewriting tool for this application, and is recommended by
    the Git project.
    
    Documentation now also provides workflow for pruning all kinds of refs,
    including refs/keep-around/* which was not documented. This meant
    purging files was incomplete from disk use perspective on the GitLab
    server.
    
    References to BFG have been removed.
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