How to actually reduce size of my repository?

[jolaf]

My private repository got just over 4 GB in size. I followed the instructions at https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/use-bfg-to-migrate-a-repo-to-git-lfs/ and moved 700 MB of my large files to LFS. Now my repository is 7.3 GB in size and I still can't push any new commits. I don't know what to do. How can I fix this? Thanks!

[jolaf · Accepted solution]

I've managed to resolve my problem by creating a new repository and pushing updated content there, then removing the old repository and renaming a new repository into old one.