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Run garbage collection on repository

iperamuna
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February 25, 2026
  1. Request a "Git Garbage Collection" on my repo siyalude/slpacms-be.

    its showing 879 but now it reduce to ~100MB but still getting size limit issues.
    Can you run this. Thanks.

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Ben
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March 1, 2026

Hi @iperamuna 

Sorry for the delay.

I've executed a garbage collection, this has reduced the repo down to ~393MB. There will be a difference in size between local vs remote as pull request metadata (stored on the server-side) stores binary files for the purposes of calculating diff.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

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Mikael Sandberg
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February 25, 2026

Hi @iperamuna,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

I have notified the Atlassian Support team and they will reach out to you within 2 business days to get this resolved. 

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