Why is my Bitbucket repo size larger than my local repo after removing large files?

Question

My repo is showing size = 1.4G on Bitbucket. I followed the instructions to reduce its size by removing large files using

bfg-1.13.0.jar

Now my local repo says its only 547M but Bitbucket is still showing 1.4G.

git count-objects -v

count: 70

size: 1228

in-pack: 24167

packs: 1

size-pack: 547317

prune-packable: 0

garbage: 0

size-garbage: 0

CrossIe · Answer

@Daniil Penkin I actually have exactly the same problem and tried pretty much everthing I found online to reduce my repo size and to try to trigger git garbage collection on Bitbucket.

* BFG, etc.
* Trying to trigger git gc* git reset --hard HEAD~1
* git push -f

and everything else I found.

My local git repository details:

git count-objects -v
count: 10
size: 30
in-pack: 523236
packs: 1
size-pack: 535407
prune-packable: 0
garbage: 0
size-garbage: 0

On Bitbucket my repo is still 1.56 GB...

Nothing seems to work. How can I trigger git gc on my Bitbucket repository?

jeastman · Answer

I did file a support ticket and also moved a bunch of large files to LFS. They gc-d my repo and its a happy 315M now.  Thanks!

Daniil Penkin · Answer

Hello @jeastman,

This is likely because garbage collection has not yet been triggered on server side. This is somewhat resource consuming operation, so it doesn't run on every repository update.

As the guide suggests:

After you push your changes, contact Support to run a git gc on the server for you. This is git garbage collection which runs housekeeping tasks on the repository to reflect the change in the size.

I'm happy to trigger garbage collection for you, however I wasn't able to find any repository with the size of 1.4GB among your repositories, so please let me know which one it is, or open a support case using the link above.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Daniil