Request to run "git gc" on a repo

[Meuhric]

Hi there!

I've seen several posts requesting this, so this seems to be the way to go: I think I need "git gc" to be run on my repo. I've been doing some cleanup to try and get its size under 1GB, yet the repo size stayed stuck at 2.19GB.

Let me know if you need any info to identify the repo.

Thank you!

[Phil C · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Welcome to the community!

I've run garbage collection on the repository, and the repository size has remains the same. 

You can check by running the following command on the local repository:

git count-objects -vH

The "size-pack" will show the local repository size.

Our documentation has additional information on how you can reduce the repository size -Maintain a Git repository

Cheers,

Phil

[Meuhric]

Hi Phil,

Thank you for your reply and for running the command!

Looking at that doc, I didn't realize I need to remove the files from the Git history after cleaning them up form the repo. I'll look into doing that then!

Thanks,

Emeric

[Phil C]

Hi Emeric,

Absolutely! Feel free to let me know if you need to run garbage collection again after removing the files from Git history.

Cheers,

Phil

[Meuhric]

Hi Phil,

It took me a while, but I did the deed. Would you be able to run GC on the repo again?

Thank you,

Emeric

[Phil C]

Hi Emeric,

Great work! I've run garbage collection again and the repository size has reduced to 1.5 GB. 

Cheers,

Phil

[Meuhric]

Thanks a lot! Looks like I need to do some more cleanup then (I'm trying to get the repo under 1GB), so I might have to ask you for another GC in a bit, if that's okay.

[Phil C]

Hi Emeric,

Not a problem! Just let me know. 

This knowledge base article may be helpful in identifying potential large files in the repository - How To: Check your repository's size and identify large files

Cheers,

Phil

[Meuhric]

Hi Phil,

We did some more cleanup, I think the repo size should be good now. Could you please run GC once more? Hoping it'll be the last time. :)

Thanks,

Emeric

[Phil C]

Hi Emeric,

Awesome! I've run garbage collection again and the remote repository size is below 1 GB at 730.6 MB. :D

Cheers,

Phil

[Meuhric]

Great, mission accomplished! Thank you for you help. :)