Re: Unable to shrink repository size

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I'd like to do is somehow hunt down the largest commit (*not*
> blob) in the entire history of the repository to hopefully find out
> where huge directories have been checked in.
>
> I can't do a search for largest file (which most google results seem
> to show to do) since the culprit is really thousands of unnecessary
> files checked into a single subdirectory somewhere in history.
>
> Can anyone offer me some advice to help me reduce the size of my repo
> further? Thanks.

If you are trying to see which commits changed the most files (and/or
lines), you may find
   git log --oneline --shortstat
helpful.  A quick search through that output may help you decide where
to dig further.


Also, I'm sure someone else here probably has a better idea, but
here's a quick hack I came up with to look at "commit sizes":

mkdir tmp && for i in $(git rev-list --all); do git branch -f dummy $i
&& git bundle create tmp/$i.bundle dummy --not dummy^@; done

Follow that up with a quick "ls -alrSh tmp/" and you can see the
"size" of each commit.


Hope that helps,
Elijah