Garbage Collection Please (03/28/2025)

Question

Hello

Like others, we received the 1GB e-mail.

We have cleaned things up and removed branches, but the repo size has not changed from 1.9GB

Please run garbage collection

Thank you!

Edit: Thanks to the Atlassian team for reaching out and getting this resolved!!

Brant Schroeder · Accepted Answer

@digitalb1 Welcome to the Atlassian community

I have escalated.

Patrik S · Accepted Answer

Hello @digitalb1 ,

thank you for reaching out to Community!

We have executed a garbage collection in your repository, but unfortunately, it hasn't changed the size much, which is kept at 1.9GB.

This usually means there are still large files occupying space. Could you run the following command and check if any large files are listed :

git rev-list --objects --all \
| git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname) %(objectsize) %(rest)' \
| sed -n 's/^blob //p' \
| sort --numeric-sort --key=2 \
| tail -n 30 \
| cut -c 1-12,41- \
| $(command -v gnumfmt || echo numfmt) --field=2 --to=iec-i --suffix=B --padding=7 --round=nearest

This should list the 30 largest files in the repository. In case you identify any outstanding large files, you can migrate them LFS using BFG and push the cleaned-up repository again, so we can run a new GC on our end.

However, if the above command returns only small files, please let us know so we can investigate further.

Thank you, @digitalb1 !

Patrik S