Reduce repository size using source tree

visionfactor February 2, 2016

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Reduce repository size

Can someone please supply the same or similar instructions to these: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/reduce-repository-size-321848262.html using source tree instead of the command line? Preferably with screenshots would be even better smile

Sorry but those command line instructions were baffling and beyond my skillset / understanding / capability level.

How can we reduce the repository size using source tree?

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Tim Crall
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February 3, 2016

I'm fairly sure that you cannot.  SourceTree is a graphical front end for the most common git tasks - and reducing the size of a repo is certainly not a common task.  The very nature of a version control system suggests that a file once entered into it should always be there, so cleaning out files completely requires the use of low-level "plumbing" commands that are beyond the scope of SourceTree.

Are you at the 2GB hard limit or are you just looking to reduce your repo size a bit?  Note that the bulk of the instructions on that page are to do with using the filter-branch command, and you can ignore them if you use the BFG java app, which looks much more straight-forward.  

 

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