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Re: why is my repo size ten times bigger than what I expected?

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Mar 8, 2011, 21:25 UTC
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On 3/7/2011 4:59 AM, Ruben Laguna wrote:
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> Cloning it that way didn't help either,
> 
> But I have more info
> 
> If I set a bare repo and push my four branches to it (master, develop,
> gh-pages and experimental) the total size of the repo is 2.4MB
> (instead of 87MB)

Then there are other branches using that space. Run git branch -a and see what else is there.

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  1. Ruben LagunaMar 5, 2011
  2. Pascal ObryMar 5, 2011
  3. Jonathan del StrotherMar 5, 2011
  4. Ruben LagunaMar 5, 2011
  5. Andreas SchwabMar 5, 2011
  6. Ruben LagunaMar 7, 2011
  7. Phillip SusiMar 8, 2011
  8. Tor Arvid LundMar 8, 2011
  9. Ruben LagunaMar 9, 2011
  10. Tor Arvid LundMar 9, 2011

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