Repository size stuck over 2 GB. Garbage Collection Request

[Waldo Ancacoy]

Hi Atlassian team,

we've performed a full history rewrite and removed all large files using git filter-repo. Locally, the repository is now ~509 MB (.git/ folder), and git count-objects -vH confirms there are no loose or dangling objects.

We have already force pushed the cleaned history to a new workspace, but Bitbucket still reports the repo size as 2.3 GB.

Could you please run a manual garbage collection (git gc) on your backend to reflect the actual size?

Repository: net-works-dev/chile-ciencia-frontend.git

Thank you so much for your help!

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Hi @Waldo Ancacoy 

Whenever cleanup operations are performed on a repository - this creates garbage at the server-side that must be garbage collected. Therefore, the size inflation is expected temporarily.

I've just executed a server-side GC for you, and this has reduced the size down from 2.3GB to 508MB :)

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[Edwin Kyalangalilwa]

Hi @Waldo Ancacoy - Please create a support request through the Atlassian partner portal.

https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

[Waldo Ancacoy]

Hi @Edwin Kyalangalilwa, I did that and it brought me to this forum. I only have two options: Explore Community or View Documentation. The documentation says to remove all large files (I already did that). So now I'm here because I saw other questions about garbage collection.