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Need to run GC on my repos

hiebj
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February 16, 2026

I am getting the following output when pushing to my workspace (wildidea):

```

Enumerating objects: 17, done.
Counting objects: 100% (17/17), done.
Delta compression using up to 12 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done.
Writing objects: 100% (10/10), 1.72 KiB | 352.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 10 (delta 7), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: WARNING This workspace is getting close to the 1 GB size limit
remote: If this workspace reaches the 1 GB size limit, you will not be able to push
remote: or merge new commits to any repositories in this workspace.
remote:
remote: Upgrade to a Standard or Premium plan: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/manage-your-plan-and-billing/#Change-your-plan
remote: Or learn how to reduce your repository size: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/reduce-repository-size/#Rewind-history-to-undo-large-commits.

```

 

I ran git-filter-repo on my 3 largest repos (wildidea/rescueally-app, wildidea/rescueally-website, and wildidea/wild-components) and force-pushed, achieving significant size reductions (totaling at least 300 MB). However Bitbucket is still reporting that I am close to my limit.

The instructions in the reduce-repository-size article suggest that Bitbucket may need to run GC manually. None of my repos are close to the single-repo size limit, so they aren't going to trigger automatic GC that way. My understanding of the docs is that it will need to be run by Atlassian Support, and the docs suggest opening a support ticket.

Can you run GC on these repositories please (or every repo in the wildidea workspace?)

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Ben
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February 26, 2026

Hi @hiebj 

That warning is just let you know that you're reasonably close to hitting the 1GB workspace limit, which is a limit applied to Free workspaces. At the time of writing this - your workspace was sitting around 833MB.

I've executed against 2 repo's because they were over 100MB, these have reduced accordingly:

  • 274MB > 160MB
  • 145MB > 69MB

Your workspace is now 620MB, so you've got quite a lot of spare space. To remove this limit, as well as benefit from a host of other features - you may consider upgrading to a paid plan:

 

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

 

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Tansu Akdeniz
Community Champion
February 20, 2026

Hi @hiebj 

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

The Atlassian support team has been notified and they will reach out to you.

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