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so I work on a branch of a master git repository, which is now 4 GB large, because I once pushed raw data by mistake. So what I did is to use git reset--hard@(10) to go back 10 commits and then used ...
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Because my git branch will use a lot of Space, so I have deleted many local branches in my local git directory by issues git branch -D xxxx However, no space is free up in my hardisk. I run git gc ...
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My repository is big after years, so I would like to make it smaller, but i don't know what is the best approach. I would like to delete the older half of my repository, but it must not affect the ...
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We have a git repo of 500MB large. Now it turns out that somewhere in the history a few unneeded files of 50MB - 75MB were added and removed after. To make the repo smaller I've decided to rewrite the ...
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How do I remove a Git submodule? Why can't I do git submodule rm module_name?
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I have a Git repository which contains a number of subdirectories. Now I have found that one of the subdirectories is unrelated to the other and should be detached to a separate repository. How can I ...
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My current base has a total size of approx. 200MB. But my .git folder has an amazing size of 5GB (!). Since I push my work to an external server, i don't need any big local history... How can I shrink ...
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I have a GitHub repository that had two branches - master and release. The release branch contained binary distribution files that were contributing to a very large repository size (more than 250 MB), ...
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Consider: 145M = .git/objects/pack/ I wrote a script to add up the sizes of differences of each commit and the commit before it, going backwards from the tip of each branch. I get 129 MB, which is ...
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It seems like my project is getting bigger and bigger with every Git commit/push. Is there a way to clean up my Git folder?
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I checked a load of files into a branch and merged. And then I had to remove them and now I'm left with a large .pack file that I don't know how to get rid of. I deleted all the files using git rm -rf ...
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I accidentally added, committed and pushed a huge binary file with my very latest commit to a Git repository. How can I make Git remove the object(s) that was/were created for that commit so my .git ...
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The .git/objects in my rails project directory is still massive, after deleting hundreds of Megabytes of accidentally generated garbage. I have tried git add -A, as well as other commands to ...
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I've got a small git repo setup with the only real purpose to be able to develop locally on several machines (work, home, laptop). Thus I have one branch and I commit/push once I leave a computer, ...
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What is the folder called .git? It's created in a repository. What is contained within it and why is it created?
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