How to reduce the size of your git repo

To reduce the size of your repository let’s first look at how big is it: $ du -sh .git 5.6M .git And then counting the objects in the repository: $ git count-objects -vH count: 181 size: 916.00 KiB in-pack: 9817 packs: 5 size-pack: 3.64 MiB prune-packable: 30 garbage: 0 size-garbage: 0 bytes Then, we can use the git gc command to reduce the size: $ git gc --aggressive Enumerating objects: 9773, done. [Read More]
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