Repo size under Repository Details does not match the size of the .git directory

Question

Hi, I have a repo where I recently removed all the unnecessary files, cleaned the history and forced the push to have just one commit. After all this, the size of the repo, locally, is just 37MB, but it still marks 146MB on the repository details. Can you help resolve this?

Thank you!

Ben · Answer

Hi @alconesp

After performing cleanup operations, it is expected that repository size will not reduce/may even increase. This is because a server-side garbage collection needs to be performed to clear out any dangling commits created by the cleanup operations. This happens automatically (once a certain garbage threshhold is met) or it can be performed manually upon request by an Atlassian support engineer to finalise the size reduction.

I've gone ahead and manually executed a garbage collection on the server-end, it has reduced the size from 146MB to 8.8MB :)

NOTE: I've redacted the repository URL's you've shared, as this is a public forum. For future reference - Atlassian support engineers regularly view our community forum and can see all of your account/workspace details already, so it's not necessary to share these details.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

alconesp · Answer

Sorry, this is the repo [REDACTED]

alconesp · Answer

Hi @Martin Alter

No, it is not the same 'issue', I did the process to clear the repo in June.