Garbage collection for my repo

[Florian Eichin]

Hello,

can you please run a garbage collection for my repository `databases`.

I removed a lot of large filse. Localy the repo is now 200MB. On Bitbucket it is still >700MB

Thank you :)

Best regards

Florian

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Hi @Flori 

I've just executed a gc, and this reduced the size of that repo down from 780mb > 600mb.

The reason for the size difference in remote vs local is remote metadata that isn't pulled from a clone. You have a pull request in your repository that was likely made before you got rid of any large files, that is retaining the size of those large files (this is done to improve diff performance).

To resolve this:

• You'll need to duplicate the repository (which will only contain the raw repository data/commits, not the PR's): https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/kb/how-to-duplicate-a-bitbucket-cloud-repository/
• Once the repository has been duplicated - delete the original repository: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/delete-a-repository/
• If you don't have enough space to push to the workspace - you may need to swap the above steps

NOTE: Performing the above will remove any metadata associated with the repository such as PR's, user permissions, pipelines etc but keep the commit history/binary data

You may also simply upgrade to a paid plan which does not have the 1GB workspace limit: https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/pricing

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)