I can't delete a branch and it is the branch that's driving the size of my repo over 2G

Question

I accidentally pushed a very large directory into a branch. I'm fine deleting the entire branch, but can't seem to do that wis this branch - neither from the bitbucket interface nor from the command line. Please help. Also I can't seem to reduce the size of the repo by hard reset and push --force.

Logan Schmidt · Answer

Can you share any error messages, codes, terminal output. It helps a lot!

Mike Scorelle · Answer

@Logan Schmidt Thanks. No, I wasn't able to delete the branch.

Logan Schmidt · Answer

@Mike ScorelleWere you able to perform a git delete of the branch?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2003515

Also look into git's garbage collection / cleanup as it may help with the size issue https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-gc

Hope this helps :)