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Large repository garbage collection request

Claus Hoang Trung Huynh
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January 15, 2026

Hello

I have a repo at ~3 GB and has cleaned it for large files as well as removing branches with large file and got it down to ~300 MB. On the forum, you have written that the garbage should run automatically, but I have not seen my repo size reduced for a while. I can also see that we can request you to manually run garbage collection on our repo. Could you do that please?

Thank you

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Ben
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January 18, 2026

Hi @Claus Hoang Trung Huynh 

You have multiple repo's at 2.9GB. I've executed a gc on each of them, only one has reduced from 2.9GB > 145MB. Please check your repo size in the UI to determine if this was the repo you were referring to. 

If you need further assistance, I will not share any repo names here as this is a public forum and would advise you against doing the same. Instead, please raise a support ticket directly with our support team as you are using a paid workspace:

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

Claus Hoang Trung Huynh
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January 19, 2026

It seems like the repository I'm working on no longer has the warning of being too large and approaching the limit. Thank you.

I'll remember the support link for the future. You can see this post as answered / resolved.

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