How do you reclaim disk space after adding an alternate in git?

Question

I have a git working directory and have added to .git/objects/info/alternates so that this working directory does not need to store duplicate data that's already in another working directory on my machine. (This is what git clone --reference=DIRECTORY does). However, duplicate objects already stored in the working directory aren't deleted from my .git/ directory. This means the .git/ directory stays large.

How do I get rid of the duplicate objects so the .git/ directory is smaller?

Answer 1

git repack -adl

The -l option in particular omits objects that are borrowed from an alternate. See git help repack and git help pack-objects.