Request - Run GC On Repo

[grkaiser]

Hello,

I cleaned up a repository of mine using BFG-Repo-Cleaner to reduce its size, removing a couple of large files. However, after pushing the changes to Bitbucket, the repo now says it's size has increased by about 7% to 880 MB.

The repo in question can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/grkaiser/fms_4gl

It's my understanding that since this repo isn't large enough, that garbage collection won't be triggered or run automatically, and I instead need to request it be run. Assuming that's the case, could you please run a GC on that repo?

Thank you!

[Phil C · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Welcome to the community! 

I've run garbage collection on the repository you referenced and the size has to 62 MB. Is this the size of the local repository?

You can check by running the following command on the local repository:

git count-objects -vH

The "size-pack" will show the local repository size.

Before proceeding with the next push to the remote repository, please ensure that you and all repository collaborators make a fresh clone of the remote repository to avoid reintroducing old/cleaned-up history and potentially inflating the repository size again.

- Phil

[grkaiser]

Looks good. Thanks very much Phil!

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @grkaiser,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

The support team that is on here has been notified and they should be reaching out to you within 2 business days regarding this.