How to delete a read-only branch?

Question

I made a commit with an unexpected folder added, which made the repo over 5GB.

Pushed to bitbucket, now it's read only. The repo was really small before, around 30 files, I tried resetinng to a commit before, but somehow it's stuck at that size even after removing the files and doing the recommended gc, etc.

So on my server I just deleted the .git folder and started over since it was just a few files and changes were not really important. But now the repo is read only on bit bucket.

So I can't git push --delete the branch which I want to do and then just push my local branch up

Any ideas how to fix it? I even tried the delete link on the bitbucket website for the branch, but it wouldn't delete. That's all I really need to do at this point, delete that branch and get rid of whatever is clogging the pipes in this repo.

Steve Thornhill_57zt4f · Answer

No problem, glad to help.

Jeff Goodsell_ugo7jp · Answer

Thanks! We finally managed to delete the repo and get it working again.

Steve Thornhill_57zt4f · Answer

Is this a cloud Bitbucket? Just checking as that can set your repo to read-only if it exceeds the size.

If so, you can try a git reset ( see - https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset )

and the retry the push ( possibly with the force option )