A few months ago I had to figure out how to migrate a 4 GB repository from Mercurial to Git, and trim the size down along the way. Luckily, I wasn’t the first one to have to do that, so there were a number of resources I could reference, namely these two. But of course, every specific case has its own specific problems.
More …Why: Because.
How: With great effort and time.
I’ve gone through so, so many iterations of this installation process because of various things that have gone irreversibly wrong. Luckily, this has all been on a VM, so nothing is truly irreversible (save for the overall entropy of the universe), but many mistakes were made, then remade (“testing”, they call it) to be sure of their causes. To note:
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