Month: July 2023

Rewriting git history: Dealing with big directory moves

I explain for I performed a git history rewrite in a not so trivial scenario

Today at work I ran into an interesting problem. We have a git repository that was formerly a SVN one. This previous repository was home to multiple big binary files, and since it is now git, all these files are making the.git directory be a painfull 2GB in size.

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GIMP: How to remove alpha channel without changing RGB channels

Very simple trick, not much in accordance with the general theme of the blog, but I get frustrated enough when I run into this problem in GIMP that I wanted to register it here, so I can never forget

Right click the layer, add layer mask, transfer layer's alpha channel to mask, select layer mask, select everything there, fill with white, optionally apply the layer mask.