Request Garbage Collection

[akupchanko]

Hi there!

I reduced the size of my 'mpp' repo to 144 Mb (confirmed with git clone). However, this repository's size remains 1.12 GB on Bitbucket.

Can I request manual garbage collection for this repository?

Best regards, Andrii.

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Hi akupchanko,

I executed a gc and this has reduced the size down only from 1.12GB to 997mb.

Unfortunately - the majority of the storage for that repository is likely being retained in your pull requests, a change was made some time ago to improve the speed of diff calculation by retaining binary files in your PR's:

• As you have thousands of PR's, many of which were created after the introduction of those large binary files - it would be exceedingly difficult to delete a large number of PR's to reduce the size

I'd suggest cloning the repo, and pushing it into a blank repo in your workspace - this will only include the repo data (not metadata like PR's/permissions etc):

• https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/kb/how-to-duplicate-a-bitbucket-cloud-repository/

From there you may delete the original repo.

Please let me know if further help is required.

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[akupchanko]

Hi Ben,

Thank you for looking into this issue.
I didn't know PR would keep commits even after cleaning the history. It does make sense - I will recreate the repository.

Best regards, Andrii.