Deleting files to reduce repo size

[miguel_fpk]

Dear Community,
lately the warning saying that my repository size is over 1GB has been jumping anytime I access bitbucket.

Then I followed the instructions given by the link:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/reduce-repository-size-321848262.html

I tried by using the git filter-branch to rewrite history, but everytime I try deleting a file by name then I followed the Garbage collecting dead data instructions but after all if I list again the big files in my repo by running the git_find_big.sh script the file is still there and I am still getting the warning.

The thing is that I am still getting the warning but when I run

git count-objects -Hv

It says that the repo is only 600 MiB (before was 1.3GB)

The Whole history rewriting is taking like an hour or so, and I when I push I am pushing a thousands of commits therefore I guess I am doing the right thing but I am not sure, could anyone give me hint?

cheers.

[Ana Retamal]

Hi Miguel, welcome to the Community!

Are you still experiencing this issue? I've checked your Bitbucket Cloud account but I could only find one repository that is 511.7 KB. Were you maybe referring to a different Bitbucket account? 

Let us know!

Ana

[miguel_fpk]

Hi Ana,
thanks for the answer, I am referring to the following project: 

https://bitbucket.org/uphillgmbh/fanpagekarma

thanks in advance,

best regards,

Miguel.