Huge repository size

[yvaing]

Hi,

I have several repositories that are pretty huge (500 Mo to >1Go), despite having that many commits. I tried to delete files and folders from BitBucket directly on one of these projects (the biggest one, which is 1.3Go) but I don't see a change in its size even after waiting for some days.

Am I missing something? To be honest, I'm not familiar from Git, so I make my actions directly from the BitBucket website.

Thanks!

[Mark C · Accepted solution]

Hi @yvaing

Welcome to the community.

I went ahead and run Git GC against your repositories more that 500 MB.

Could you check the size now?

Regards,
Mark C

[yvaing]

Hi @Mark C ,

Thanks for your help! Actually, I only cleaned words and letters atm. It was the one at 1.3Go, and now it's down to 657Mo.

However, given the project size and its history length, it still seems very big. The repository for another word (AS3) should be pretty similar and it's 7Mo while Domination (the most active project) is 170Mo.

Is there something else I need to do?

[Mark C]

Hi @yvaing

In that case, you may need to reduce more of your repo size or consider using Git LFS - Reduce repository size

Regards,
Mark C

[Brant Schroeder · Accepted solution]

@yvaing welcome to the Atlassian community

I will escalate to Atlassian so they can run garbage collection on your repo.

[yvaing]

Thanks!