Migrating from TFS to Git - Ignore Nuget

[ack...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am looking for migrating TFS repositories to Git (just source code). TFS includes all binary nuget packages, which consume quite a good amount space. Since GitHub puts 1GB limits on repositories, I want to create ignore for nuget packages. What is best way to do it?

Thank you,

- Akash Kava

[Wiebe Tijsma]

What have you tried?

Just make sure package restore works on your build server.

http://docs.nuget.org/docs/reference/package-restore-with-team-build

[ack...@gmail.com]

Package restore works fine, problem is not compilation, program is git taking too much space.

Here are steps,

1. I already have a working TFS repository (history contains all the nuget package libraries, taking upto 600MB space)

2. When I migrate TFS to Git (even if I create .gitignore to ignore nuget packages), historical changesets (checkins) contain all nuget libraries

Problem is how do I remove historical checkins of nuget libraries?

[Wiebe Tijsma]

Use the normal GIT way of removing large binaries

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/how-to-remove-delete-a-large-file-from-commit-history-in-git-repository

[Matt Burke]

If you've already run `git-tfs clone`, use filterbranch like Wiebe
suggested. If you haven't run `git-tfs clone`, or if you want another
option, try `git tfs clone --ignore-regex /packages/ http://server/tfs
$/Project`.

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Matt

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Wiebe Tijsma <wi...@netindustry.nl> wrote:
> Use the normal GIT way of removing large binaries
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/how-to-remove-delete-a-large-file-from-commit-history-in-git-repository
>

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[Philippe Miossec]

Bfg ( http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ ) is also a very good tool to remove files and folders of git history...