Request for repository cleanup after using BFG to delete files

Question

Hi support,

I’ve just used BFG Repo-Cleaner to permanently delete a number of large files from my repository. I’ve pushed the cleaned repository successfully and would now like to ask if you can trigger garbage collection and cleanup on your side to reflect the reduced size.

Here’s the result I get when I run git count-objects -Hv after cleanup:

count: 36103
size: 465.59 MiB
in-pack: 144798
packs: 1
size-pack: 1.41 GiB
prune-packable: 0
garbage: 0
size-garbage: 0 bytes

Thank you in advance for your help!
Best, Camilla

Ben · Accepted Answer

Hi Camilla,

I've executed a gc nd this has reduced the size from 3.0GB to 1.4GB.

You'll need to do further cleanup on large files in your repository - here's a command that will show you which files are large:

git rev-list --objects --all \
| git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname) %(objectsize) %(rest)' \
| awk '/^blob/ {print substr($0,6)}' \
| sort -r --numeric-sort --key=2 \
| numfmt --field=2 --to=iec-i --suffix=B --padding=7 --round=nearest

Let me know when you're ready for a subsequent garbage collection.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)