Deleting files to reduce repo size

Nico Kanitz

Dear Community,

lately the warning saying that my repository size is over 1GB has been jumping anytime I access bitbucket.

Then I followed the instructions given by the link:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/reduce-repository-size-321848262.html

I tried by using the git filter-branch to rewrite history, but everytime I try deleting a file by name then I followed the Garbage collecting dead data instructions but after all if I list again the big files in my repo by running the git_find_big.sh script the file is still there and I am still getting the warning.

The thing is that I am still getting the warning but when I run

git count-objects -Hv

It says that the repo is only 600 MiB (before was 1.3GB)

The Whole history rewriting is taking like an hour or so, and I when I push I am pushing a thousands of commits therefore I guess I am doing the right thing but I am not sure, could anyone give me hint?

Thanks in advance

Ana Retamal

Hi Nico!

Are you sure you've removed that big file from all the commits where it appears?

Also, could you let us know the name of the repo so we can have a look? 

Kind regards,

Ana