Requesting git gc for remote repo.

[pinturic]

Good morning, 

I have recently rewritten the history of my repository in order to remove a lot of blob files that should have never been there.

Locally my repository went from 700Mb to 45Mb and after a push force I hoped the server repository size were going down as well. Maybe you have to trigger a manual gc as well!

The repository is TheForgottenBelow

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Hi @pinturic 

I've executed a gc against the repo, it has only reduced from 775MB > 760MB unfortunately.

This is usually due to one of the following 2 causes:

1. Large files are still present

• Double check your large files:
  

  git rev-list --objects --all \
  | git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname) %(objectsize) %(rest)' \
  | awk '/^blob/ {print substr($0,6)}' \
  | sort -r --numeric-sort --key=2 \
  | numfmt --field=2 --to=iec-i --suffix=B --padding=7 --round=nearest

• If you see a number of large files still present - target these for removal and force push again:
  https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/maintain-a-git-repository/ 

2. Pull requests

• Pull requests cache the size of those historical large binary files, this is to speed up the calculation of complex diffs. 
• You can test this by performing a clone locally and checking the size of the cloned repo on your machine - if the size differs massively - this will be the cause (as PR's are metadata which aren't included in clones)
• The simplest way of resolving this would be to mirror clone your repo, push a copy to a new blank repo in your workspace and delete the original:
  https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/kb/how-to-duplicate-a-bitbucket-cloud-repository/ 

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[pinturic]

Thanks I cloned the repository!

[pinturic]

I am waiting for the garbage collection, are there news?

[pinturic]

Can anyone help me?