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Workspace in read-only mode — please run garbage collection after history rewrite

Playmebit
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August 14, 2026

Hi, our workspace REDACTED has been placed in read-only mode for exceeding the 1 GB Free plan limit. We are on the Free plan, so following the guidance in previous threads I'm posting here rather than opening a ticket.

We have already reduced the repository REDACTED/REDACTED: we ran git filter-repo to purge large binaries (.glb models, video, OBB and an SDK tool) from the entire history, and force-pushed all rewritten refs (dev, master, tags v0.2.0 and v0.7.0).

A fresh git clone --mirror of the remote now packs to 86.19 MiB, down from ~1.5 GB, which confirms the reachable content is already reduced. The reported size still reflects unreachable objects left over from the rewrite.

Could someone please trigger garbage collection manually on this repository so the space is reclaimed and the workspace returns to read-write? Thanks!

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Mark C
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August 17, 2026

Hi @Playmebit

Welcome to the community.

I went ahead and run Git GC against the remote repository.

I can see it is now showing 86.3 MB.

Could you confirm the same?

Regards,
Mark C

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August 17, 2026

Hi @Mark C , confirmed, many thanks! now shows 86.3MB as well.

Cheers!

Jorge

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Arkadiusz Wroblewski
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August 15, 2026

Hello and welcome to Atlassian Community @Playmebit 

I flagged this post. An Atlassian Support engineer will respond within two business days.

Best,

Arek 🤠 

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