RE: Reducing Git Repository size - git-filter-repo doesn't help

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2023, 02:36 UTC
Message-ID: <017d01d923d3$20b90bd0$622b2370$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <PH7PR12MB779560B6C003FEE76E4F2471F1FE9@PH7PR12MB7795.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

On January 8, 2023 9:22 PM, fawaz ahmed0 wrote:

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>I have this huge repo: https://github.com/fawazahmed0/currency-api#readme
>and I am trying to reduce its size.
>
>I have run filter-repo script on this repo (
>https://github.com/fawazahmed0/currency-
>api/blob/1/.github/workflows/cleanup-repo.yml ) The commits were reduced
>from 1k to 600 , but the space used is still same. (i.e size-pack: 6.47 GiB

>https://github.com/fawazahmed95/currency-
>api/actions/runs/3865919157/jobs/6589710845#step:5:1498 )
>
>Almost all commits of this repo were applied on partially cloned

repository: (

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>https://github.com/fawazahmed0/currency-
>api/blob/1/.github/workflows/run.yml ) So I guess it had never run any git
>maintenance task in it's life.
>
>I am not sure what needs to be done to reduce it's space utilization. (
>https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-large-
>files/about-large-files-on-
>github#:~:text=less%20than%205%20GB%20is%20strongly%20recommended )

The first thing you can try is 'git gc --aggressive' to reduce the clone size. Github automatically does garbage collection. If this is a question of the size of the working index, look at the sparse-checkout command.

--Randall