Request to run git gc on my remote repo

[Bahiyah Nor]

Hi,

I have reduced the size of my repo and push. Please help me run git gc on my remote repo.

Thanks.

[Ben]

Hi Bahiyah,

I've ran gc against your two largest repositories (1.5GB/697MB) but they did not reduce in size.

You will need to locate large files in your repositories and reduce the repository size by removing those large files or converting them to GIT LFS:

• https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/kb/how-to-remove-files-from-the-commit-history-in-bitbucket-cloud/
• https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/use-bfg-to-migrate-a-repo-to-git-lfs/

Here is a command to show your files (sorted by largest at the top):

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

Please note that any cleanup operations create garbage/dangling commits, which will inflate the size. We need to run a server-side gc from our side to complete the process, so please let me know when you're ready to do so.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[Bahiyah Nor]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the command. Will do that first and get back to you.

Cheers!