r way is
to clone, that keeps your original intact.</p>
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<p>Clone it with <code>git clone file:///path/to/repo</code>.  The clone
will not have the removed objects.  See <a href="git-clone.html">git-clone(1)</a>.  (Note
that cloning with a plain path just hardlinks everything!)</p>
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<p>If you really don&#8217;t want to clone it, for whatever reasons, check the
following points instead (in this order).  This is a very destructive
a