repository size not reduced after git filter-repo and moving files to lfs

[Natalia]

we did a git filter-repo to remove all large files from history and we moved some of the files to lfs (we see them there taking a little storage) and we don't see them in the branches anymore after the filter and push, but the repo size was not reduced online (repository settings).

i understand the gc is automatically run on cloud services.

what could be the issue? is there a way of telling what's going on?

thanks!

[Syahrul]

G'day, @Natalia 

Welcome to the community!

I have triggered GC on your repository and I can see that your total workspace consumption is now below the 1 GB limit.

As for @andydent I have triggered GC on the affected repository. The size of the repo is now at 300++ MB.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Syahrul

[Natalia]

Thanks Syahrul! I have one more project I need to clean up and move some files to LFS. Is there a way to trigger the GC myself like committing some file or doing something that would trigger it? Or do I have to ask again for your help?

Thanks! 

[Syahrul]

Hey @Natalia 

As per our page here, After you have rewritten the history, if the repository size is still over 75% of the size limit, we will automatically run garbage collection on your repository, which should reduce it to a manageable size. If that does not solve your repository size issue, you will need to let me know so we can manually trigger it.

Regards,
Syahrul

[Brant Schroeder]

@Natalia welcome to the Atlassian community

Atlassian support will need to run garbage collection.  I have escalated this issue to them so they can take care of it for you.

[andydent]

I have the same problem @Brant Schroeder having cleaned up some very old big stuff on https://bitbucket.org/touchgram/touchgram using BFG

Seems as a free user I'm unable to contact support directly so would appreciate someone passing along my details to get that GC'd.

Happy to become paid user once I get monetisation up a bit to get past the spousal filter ;-)