Request Garbage Collection

[accursedm0]

Hi,

I've used BFG to reduce the size of a repository that already had 2.45 GB.
After pushing, the size on bitbucket increased to over 3 GB though.

Could you please run a manual garbage collection on my repository '*_app_android'?

Thank you and all the best!
Thomas

[Mark C · Accepted solution]

Hi @accursedm0

Welcome to the community.

I went ahead and run Git GC against the repository.

Could you check the size now?

Regards,
Mark C

[accursedm0]

Hi Mark C,

Thank you so much! It looks much better now with 790MB.
I might have to reduce the repo size a bit more and ask you again for a gc though.
I hope that's ok.

All the best,
Thomas

[accursedm0]

Hi Mark C,

As expected, I had to further reduce the repo size.

Could you please run git gc one more time on the repository '*_app_android'?

Thank you so much and all the best,
Thomas

[Mark C]

Done @accursedm0

Could you check the size now?

Regards,
Mark C

[accursedm0]

Thank you so much Mark C!

Now it's perfectly alright with 180MB.

All the best,
Thomas

[Robin Kon]

Hey Thomas, Bitbucket doesn’t run GC immediately after pushing rewritten history, so it’s common to see a temporary size increase. You can open a support ticket and request a manual GC, that’s the only way to trigger it on their end. Be sure to mention you used BFG and that all refs were properly cleaned locally before the force-push.

[accursedm0]

Thank you for your answer Robin!

I'm on the free plan and therefor cannot open a support ticket.

But I've seen others asking for a gc here. 

Thankfully the atlassian team members are super quick to respond.

All the best!