Investigate big git folder

[Erb3]

When cloning the git repository with git clone, you can notice it is very big. (Over 470mb !)
I've found that the big file is a .pack file inside of .git/objects/pack.

• What specifically is this file?
• Can we remove it, if so how?

[Dhechid Phumpaka]

that's the flaw of git, git record every changes with lead up to big file

[ポキ]

im sure no one want it to be squash merged. git LFS perhaps? https://git-lfs.com/

[Erb3]

If anyone comes across this in the future, we solved it with something similar to:

java -jar ~/Software/bfg/bfg-1.14.0.jar --delete-folders .yarn --no-blob-protection --strip-biggest-blobs 10
git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive
git push -f

Then removed all the other branches on the repo. See bfg-repo-cleaner.