I have a codebase that (until now) used git to store its dependencies. The repository itself is available here (warning: it’s HUGE). Needless to say, I need to remove the dependencies from the repository history in order to cut it down to a reasonable size.
I started by using David Underhill’s instructions to remove the lib directory from the history. Even after doing this, however, the repository is still over 300M. Issuing git prune and git repack helps, but it’s still over 180M.
In an attempt to find any bloated blobs, I issued
git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-*.idx | grep -v chain | sort -k3nr | head
with these results:
105526b5d3d398b9989d88c2f9fc2d1dc96a85b8 blob 35685609 33600527 31978828
d296935e6ac5f3f58b50c789394c9769116e9c34 blob 35658016 33593241 112485744
50636f931180a32764edadd854968a971a083f8a blob 28360290 25897864 233390
b9e4dd37428e879a258f297b7f5bcfb9ba869695 blob 13108002 11640713 66661788
08d2720b2414aa07ce419b17d5f80c333c7313b7 blob 12551621 11124009 89231035
6197a478a461275a0396f20c28487e9ae619a5f9 blob 11975135 11058259 148211988 1 50636f931180a32764edadd854968a971a083f8a
549eb0c73776fd0ede27a2fcb03366f76f45a13c blob 9136086 8166649 166451273
5bc0a0f04a7004bc16cfab1c091c6b369fb74049 blob 9072616 8270262 80951514
741480238a6a6ce612cf089245dd46d6890fba9f blob 8858569 8080252 101294029
744226651c55b14c1aa8affb78fba4fdf02b577c blob 7412220 6766404 186825167
This is where I’m stuck. I can git show these blobs and see that they look very much like jar files, but I can’t figure out why they’re still in the repo.
Various attempts to find their filenames failed.
git repack -a, git repack -ad, and git repack -Ad all seem to have no effect.
Have you tried running
git gc? http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gc.html