Brett Randall

@Vampire I appreciate you putting this on a branch, so that if/when this PR is considered, all options and feedback are readily available. However note that a) I'm not a...

Is #196 any help?

As eluded-to in comments above, I think this request decomposes into: - Getting a simple objects-to-delete report, of what bfg can find and plans to-do, perhaps with some nice metrics...

See also my comment above, but consider the following: * In almost all cases, there will be some shared and remote repo that will eventually be overwritten with the BFG-shrunk,...

@lovesegfault so we can put numbers to this ... what are the timings if a) first clone remote? To local then second clone local to local perhaps allowing hard links.

This is a long-standing feature-request, see #79, #12 . The lack of this feature is brought-about by the way BFG processes trees - it only looks at the filename within...

Duplicates #283 which also adds JDK clarification.

According to [git-lfs team](https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Tutorial#migrating-existing-repository-data-to-lfs): > While multiple tools exist, the current recommendation is to use git-lfs-migrate as BFG writes .gitattributes files incorrectly if you're updating multiple file types. That said,...

My understanding is that BFG LFS support is experimental and the LFS team recommend other tools which you should explore.

Can't anyone create one of these packages? Sounds like this is looking for a volunteer.