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git repo size too big

Ralph Strebl

Hello,

one of my repos got too big, almost 2.2 gb. I already did rewrite history locally and pushed it to one of my branches. I did also push with force option to origin repo. I locally reduced the size to 280 MB.

So now I need to run gc on remote repo. How could i reach that.

Thanks in advance

Kind regards

Ralph

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Theodora Boudale

Hi @Ralph Strebl and welcome to the community!

A git gc on the remote repo can be run manually only by the Bitbucket support team. If you are on the Free plan and can't create a support ticket, you can create a question here in community; we have Atlassian staff, myself included, checking community and we can help.

If you haven't deleted the original repo yet, I can run a git gc on it, so that you won't lose any PR history. If you push your cleaned repo to a new empty one, PR history and other metadata won't be transferred. I don't see any repos in your account with a size of 2.2 GB, but I do see one with a size of 1.7 GB. Please let me know if that's the one, and I can run a git gc on it if you want.

Kind regards,
Theodora

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Theodora Boudale

Hi @Ralph Strebl and welcome to the community!

Kind regards,
Theodora

Ralph Strebl

Hi Theodora,

thanks for your reply.

I did not delete the big sized repo yet. So if you can start the gc for this one would be very nice. The repo sized 1.7GB is the correct one.

I already reduced the local size to 230 mb now and pushed the changes to the oversized repo. So after your gc the bad commits should be deleted.

Please let me know when you have run the gc, so i can check the size again.

Thanks for your help

Kind regards

Ralph

Theodora Boudale

Hi Ralph,

Of course. I ran a git gc for the repo, but its size has been reduced to only 1.1 GB.

Could you please take a mirror clone of the repo and check of that size? I am asking that so I can understand if the size we see now on Bitbucket is because of the core git repo, or, if there are PR refs that may still reference older objects you deleted with history rewrite.

You can take a mirror clone with the command

git clone --mirror <repo_url>

A mirror repo will get all branches of the remote repo locally and it will have no working directory.

You can then navigate to the directory of the mirror clone and run

git count-objects -Hv

What output do you get from this last command?

Kind regards,
Theodora

Ralph Strebl

Hi Theodora,

I cloned the repo with option --mirror and get the following result:

count: 0
size: 0 bytes
in-pack: 17258
packs: 1
size-pack: 271.25 MiB
prune-packable: 0
garbage: 0
size-garbage: 0 bytes

The size I get is equal to the local size near by 270 MB. Seems like the repo has already the right size. Why then bitbucket is still counting 1.1 GB?

Kind regards,

Ralph

exov

Good morning,
Could you also run `git gc` on my largest repository? I made a mistake and pushed a commit that was too large,
thank you

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