[Bioc-devel] deleting irrelevant legacy objects from git repo?

[Turaga, Nitesh]

Another note, it is not be possible for you to push back to the Bioconductor server once the repo is cleaned. Please do this on your Github repo, and let me know. I will sync the cleaned repo.

To further explain, you need force push privileges to Bioconductor to make this happen, and these are not given to maintainers. Hence the added step required for me to sync these repos.

I’m also forwarding to Bioc-devel, since this is a particularly good question to share with the community at large. We’ve been getting a few questions pertaining this exact problem.

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> On Mar 19, 2018, at 2:24 PM, ni41435_ca <nitesh.turaga at roswellpark.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> Yes it is possible to prune this. Please check BFG cleaner, it works well.
> 
> https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
> 
> That would be the easiest way to go about it. If you need more help, please feel free to ask. BFG cleaner is pretty well explained in its documentation.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nitesh 
> 
>> On Mar 19, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Vincent Carey <stvjc at channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi -- restfulSE is hard to check out the first time because
>> so many large objects were in there, and then deleted.
>> 
>> Is it allowable to prune them out?  If so can you advise
>> on the commands?
> 



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