Request to run "git gc" on a repo

[Meuhric]

Hi there!

I've seen several posts requesting this, so this seems to be the way to go: I think I need "git gc" to be run on my repo. I've been doing some cleanup to try and get its size under 1GB, yet the repo size stayed stuck at 2.19GB.

Let me know if you need any info to identify the repo.

Thank you!

[Phil C]

Hello,

Welcome to the community!

I've run garbage collection on the repository, and the repository size has remains the same. 

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.

Our documentation has additional information on how you can reduce the repository size -Maintain a Git repository

Cheers,

Phil

[Meuhric]

Hi Phil,

Thank you for your reply and for running the command!

Looking at that doc, I didn't realize I need to remove the files from the Git history after cleaning them up form the repo. I'll look into doing that then!

Thanks,

Emeric

[Phil C]

Hi Emeric,

Absolutely! Feel free to let me know if you need to run garbage collection again after removing the files from Git history.

Cheers,

Phil