Request Garbage Collection

[DJ]

Hi there,

I have recently cleaned my workspace repositories. Can garbage collection please be run on all repos that are there?

[Syahrul]

G'day, @DJ 

Welcome to the community!

I have initiated garbage collection on one of the large repositories, reducing it to approximately 590MB. While it's still quite substantial, you might consider trimming it down further.

However, since your workspace is currently below the 1 GB limit, you should be fine. If you want to minimize the size further, refer to our documentation below for maintaining a Git repository.

Regards,
Syahrul

[DJ]

The size should be 36.3 MB. Something is not right from your side. I had cleaned it already.

[Syahrul]

Hey @DJ 

Thanks for the update.

You have a couple of options to resolve this:

Option 1 - Delete & recreate the repositories
This is the fastest way to solve the problem, but loses metadata such as PRs, Pipelines, Permissions, etc.

1. Perform a bare clone of those repositories for backup purposes

2. Delete those repositories from your workspace to free up space and allow you to push. NOTE: This will permanently remove metadata such as PR's/pipelines/user permissions etc.

3. Identify the largest files in your repositories by executing the following command:

git rev-list --objects --all \
| git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname) %(objectsize) %(rest)' \| awk '/^blob/ {print substr($0,6)}' \
| sort -r --numeric-sort --key=2 \
| numfmt --field=2 --to=iec-i --suffix=B --padding=7 --round=nearest

3. Perform cleanup operations locally to reduce the size

4. Once complete, push those repositories back to your workspace by creating a blank repository with the same name of the deleted repository, then mirror pushing the contents of the cleaned repository:

HTTPS
git push --mirror https://<username>@bitbucket.org/<WorkspaceID>/<RepoName>.git

SSH
git push --mirror git@bitbucket.org:<WorkspaceID>/<RepoName>.git

NOTE: This will remove metadata such as PR's/pipelines/permissions etc but will keep your commit history and binary files intact.

Option 2 - Temporarily upgrade

1. Upgrade to a paid plan and utilise our 30-day trial period to restore functionality and provide more time to reduce your repository directly without deletion. You can choose to continue or cease your trial before the end of the 30-day period.

2. If you encounter any issues during this period - you may raise a ticket directly with our support team using your workspace URL: Atlassian Support  

Please let me know how this goes.

Regards,
Syahrul