Bitbucket Server: how to determine what repo a physical LFS file belongs to

Question

Scanning our LFS files on our Bitbucket Server's host, I find some files that have issues (example: too big). I want to determine what Bitbucket project/repo an LFS file came from, but I have no idea how to do that, as the filenames are just hashes.

Does anyone know how to do this reverse lookup?

unknown · Answer

Thanks, I'll try this.

Andrei Khudavets · Answer

Hi Bill,

Probably the easiest (not necessarily the best) way to find the owner of the file is by repository hierarchy. In this example of path to LFS file:

... git-lfs/storage/569b0deeee77e67b5d4d/64/<file_name>

569b0deeee77e67b5d4d is a hierarchy ID

Once you know it, you can find repositories by hierarchy_id in the database:

SELECT * FROM repository WHERE hierarchy_id LIKE '569b0deeee77e67b5d4d'

Note 1: if repository has forks, then all forks will have the same hierarchy_id

Note 2: if you manually delete the file from the disk, the repository will be corrupted

I hope it helps.