Repository size clean up GC request

[steve-s1188]

Hi, I've cleaned up a repository as it exceeds the new 1Gb size limit. However the stated size has not decreased. Could a GC be run please?

Thanks in advance !

[Mark C]

Hi @steve-s1188

Welcome to the community.

I went ahead run Git GC, however, the size remains the same.

Could you confirm if you've used the BFG tool the remove large files in your repository?

Regards,
Mark C

[steve-s1188]

Hi @Mark C

I've looked again, and used the BFG tool. I wanted to move the larger files to LTS rather than remove them but need more than the 1gb of LTS space. Does upgrading the plan from Free to Standard remove the 1gb limit being imposed on the 28th April? or does that apply to all plans?

[Mark C]

Hi @steve-s1188

Yes, upgrading to the Standard plan removes the 1 GB limit per workspace.

Regards,
Mark C

[steve-s1188]

@Mark C  

thanks for clarifying that.

Could you run a gc again. I've managed to remove some old files using the tool so expecting the repo size to go down.

thanks.

[Mark C]

Hi @steve-s1188

GC is done, from 2.6 GB, the repo size is now down to 1.9 GB.

Regards,
Mark C

[steve-s1188]

@Mark C  thanks for that.

I was expecting the size to be smaller.

When i run a git clone --mirror to get the bare repo it says: 

retrieving objects: 100%, 738.66 MiB  ...

and when I run a git count-objects -vH this is the output.

count: 0
size: 0 bytes
in-pack: 202326
packs: 1
size-pack: 744.06 MiB
prune-packable: 0
garbage: 0
size-garbage: 0 bytes

I have also run git log on the full history for the files I rewrote history for and they do not show up.

Thanks.

[Mark C]

Hi @steve-s1188

I went ahead and raised a support ticket for us to investigate this further.

You should receive the notification email by now.

Let's continue our discussion there.

Regards,
Mark C