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Requset for Manual Garbage Collection to Reduce Repository Size - CE Official Lightweight

ShengWen
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January 16, 2026

Dear BitBucket Support Team,

I am writing to request a manual Garbage Collection (GC) and Size Recalculation for the following repository:

Reason: Recently, I performed a signifficant cleanup of this repository using `git-filter-repo` to remove large files (model weights) from the entire Git history. After the cleanup, I typed a `git push --force` to update all branches.

After that, my local repository size has decreased to approimately 21 MB (the original is 600+MB). However, the BitBucket dashboard still reports a size of over 600+MB. I suspect that the orphaned large objects are still being retained in the server-side cache and have not yet been pruned by the automated system.

 

Since I am approaching the storage limit for free accounts, could you please help me ?

Thank you very much for your time and assistance.
Best Regards,

Peter

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