git gc on bitbucket

[Fernando M_]

Hi, Atlassian team.

I have cleaned my repo by running BFG Repo-Cleaner into a mirror clone and pushed back to remote. In my machine the repo had reduced the size as expected, but in bitbucket it had increased. 

I think I need someone to run git gc in my repo, so the old history will be deleted. 

I don't want to publish the repo name here because privacy issues. But it's the only one big in the workspace cdavis..., with more than 900mb. 

Thank you,

Nando

[Syahrul]

Hey @Fernando M_ 

Welcome to the community!

I have triggered a GC on the affected repository, and its size has been reduced to 679 MB after completion. Could you confirm if this is the expected size you're aiming for?

Regards,
Syahrul

[Fernando M_]

Hi @Syahrul 

Actually I've expected to be something close to 274.4 MB. 

The size of 679MB is how it was before I had ran BFG Repo-Cleaner removing big files. 

When I do a git clone --mirror, the total size in my machine is 274.4 MB. Shouldn't it take the same space in bitbucket cloud? 

Thanks,

Fernando

[Syahrul]

Hey @Fernando M_ 

Thank you for confirming. I believe the issue is due to the PR caching old large files. To reduce the repository further, we need to delete both PRs in the repository. Let me know if you'd like to proceed with deleting the PRs.

Regards,
Syahrul