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Notes on burning out big git commits using the BFG repo cleaner on OSX
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Installing the BFG

First make sure that you install Java using homebrew - the Oracle installer makes a terrible fscking mess of your machine :(

$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew install brew-cask
$ brew cask install java

Then you can install the bfg using the homebrew recepie

$ brew install bfg

This gives you an alias bfg to java -jar bfg.jar.

Firing the BFG

You can pretty much follow the directions here. In my case I hadn't pushed the repo to github yet so just did a bare checkout from my local version:

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone --mirror ~/Developer/<my_repo>
Cloning into bare repository 'marc.git'...
done.
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