Why is all of the commits for the Laravel framework visible in my projects git log?

Question

Why is all of the commits associated with Laravel visible in some of my projects when I run git log --all and not in others. Git docs says:

--all: Pretend as if all the refs in refs/, along with HEAD, are listed on the command line as <commit>.

In my .git/refs/ all I see is empty folders, probably because all the refs have been packed.

How can I get rid of the Laravel commit history as well as the tags, but preserve my own history and tags?

Yes, I recall that I've might have started the project by cloning the framework repo a long time ago. — Lasse, Jul 18 '17 at 07:43
Take a look [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/27717843/4881811)! — Maraboc, Jul 18 '17 at 07:47
This is a 2+ year old projects with lots and lots of commits already. I don't want to preserve the commit history, not start a new project. — Lasse, Jul 18 '17 at 07:50
I guess another wording for your problem would be, "how to remove commits older than X". Maybe try something from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4515580/how-do-i-remove-the-old-history-from-a-git-repository . — Artur K., Jul 18 '17 at 08:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '17 at 08:34

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This worked for me:

Voilà. All unwanted refs gone.

answered Jul 18 '17 at 08:34

Lasse

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