How to ask a `run Garbage Collector` from bitbucket team?

[Loïc Fuentes]

Hi bitbucket mate,

I recently remove all the history in my repo in order to clean the 1.9Gb.

https://bitbucket.org/aerialeng/rca-app/

So after doing it, it's looks I have to wait after an auto GC.

But I can't stop the production for this so, I looking to know how and to who I should ask to run the GC?

Thanks for you response,

Aerial Dev Team

[Santosh J · Accepted solution]

Hi Aerial Dev Team,

There are 2 options: 

1. To open a ticket with Bitbucket Support - I would recommend using the link https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/ - and selecting the option "Technical Issues and Bugs" to help you get to the Support team 

2. To manually remove large files with the steps below:

If you need to reduce the repo size further, I would suggest you use the BFG tool in order to remove large files from the repository’s history. As per our Reduce repository size documentation https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/reduce-repository-size-321848262.html you can use BFG such as $ java -jar bfg.jar --strip-blobs-bigger-than 50M to remove all file bigger than 50M. You can customize the size of the files you want to remove according to your needs. Please refer BFG Repo-Cleaner by rtyley for the link https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ to download the BFG jar and for more information on how to run BFG.

Hope this helps.