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

Hi,

I had a repo which was big 143MB because it contained a bunch of jar files. So I decided to remove those completely from the history.

In short I used the git-large-blob [1] to find all the jars and used the git-remove-history script [2] which does the filter-branch thing, prune, etc.

I did this on all branches (that I know of) and now I can see that the jars are gone because I can't find them with git-large-blob.  and the repo size has dropped from 143Mb to 87Mb.

My concern is that 87Mb is still really big taking into account he
size of the project.  in fact if I run "git diff-tree -r -p $commit
|wc -c" for each commit and sum all I get 5.5Mb.

I also ran the git-rev-size [3] script that I found in this mailing list and I only see that the size grows steadly from commit to commit up to 1482731 bytes. So again how come the .git directory is 87MB?

So, Can anybody tell me if this repository size is "normal" for a project with 1.4MB source and 352 commits? Is there a better way to calculate the size (in bytes) of each commit?

Is there any other thing I could do to reduce and audit  the repository size?

Thanks in advance! Rubén

--- [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/298314/find-files-in-git-repo-over-x-megabytes-that-dont-exist-in-head [2] http://dound.com/2009/04/git-forever-remove-files-or-folders-from-history/ [3] http://markmail.org/message/762zzg5zckbiq2i7