Repository exceeded file size limit - reduced Repository size but still can not push

Kai Brodrecht

Hey everybody,

we’ve exceeded the file size limit of our repository. To reduce the size we deleted unused branches and excluded some files. If we use the command git count-objects -Hv we get: 

count: 2943
size: 140.03 MiB
in-pack: 59012
packs: 10
size-pack: 3.51 GiB
prune-packable: 25
garbage: 0
size-garbage: 0 bytes

 

So the size-pack is 3.51 GB and should not exceed the file size limit?

I saved my local changes to a new branch and tried to reset the critical branch to a previous commit using git push –force but than it says that the repository size is 4.2 GB and I can not push to the repository.

Do you have any suggestion what to do next?

Best Regards

Kai

Syahrul

Hey @Kai Brodrecht 

Welcome to the community!

The size did not reduce because the remote repository still has all the dangling commits and cache taking the repository size.

Nevertheless, I have triggered Git GC on the affected repository that was in 4GB size, and the size has been reduced to 1.9GB after GC is complete.

Let me know if that helps.

Cheers,
Syahrul