Repository size exceeds limit

Question

Dear Bitbucket,

I got the following error message on the Source page of my directory:

This repository is over the 4 GB limit and your contributors are not able to push new commits. To resolve this, reduce the repository size.Bitbucket mentions that the size of the repo is currently 5.14 GB of 4 GB. However, when running the git count-objects -Hv command, it shows me the following output:

count: 1
size: 4.00 KiB
in-pack: 65955
packs: 1
size-pack: 101.98 MiB
prune-packable: 0
garbage: 0
size-garbage: 0 bytes

I tried to delete the repository on my local and cloned it again, and the size seems to be about 100 mb. Running the count-objects command on any server shows me a similar result, but I can't figure out why we are exceeding the limit.

Repo: <repo_url_removed>

Thank you in advance,

Jim

Theodora Boudale · Accepted Answer

Hi Jim,

I ran a garbage collection on the repository and its size is 2.7 GB now. The remote repo most likely had some dangling commits and needed a git gc for them to be removed. Did you perhaps rewrite history for this repo?

Could you please take a mirror clone of the repo with the command

git clone --mirror <repo_url>

then run the git count-objects -Hv command in that mirror clone and let me know what output do you get?

A git clone command without the --mirror flag will only pull the repo's main branch locally and not any additional branches the repo may have.

Just a heads up, I removed the repo url from your post to protect your privacy.

Kind regards,
Theodora