Repository Size Issue. Maybe somekind of GC?

[tecnicaz]

My local repository is 8KB, but Bitbucket reports 2GB. I have cleaned and force-pushed my repo. Please trigger a repository size recalculation.
Thanks in advance

[Theodora Boudale · Accepted solution]

Hi @tecnicaz and welcome to the community!

I saw one repo under your workspace with a size of 3 GB, there was no repo with a size of 2 GB. I ran a git gc on this repo and its size has been reduced to 9.3 MB.

The repo's name starts with 's', is this the one you cleaned and does it look ok now on your end?

With regards to your question on where to post such requests: users who have a paid billing plan can raise a support ticket via https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/. If you're on the Free plan, the community is the right place to ask for a git gc. We have Atlassian staff checking community for requests that require support intervention.

Kind regards,
Theodora

[tecnicaz]

Thaks so much for your help and for the instructions. 

All the best,

José

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_]

Hi @tecnicaz and welcome,

your local repo could not contain files tracked on server side. Please check the following documentation about how to reduce your repo size https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/reduce-repository-size/

Moreover please contact support to run garbage collector

After you push your changes, contact Support to run a git gc on the server for you. This is git garbage collection which runs housekeeping tasks on the repository to reflect the change in the size.

Hope this helps,

Fabio

[tecnicaz]

Thanks for your answer. Can you please guide me in the right direction as to ask for a git gc. After all the reading I was under the impression that this was the suitable place for it.

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_]

Hi @tecnicaz ,

please raise a support request here -> https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

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