Git repo weighs 160 MB about distributions

[jbenet]

i thought i orphaned them. github may not be gc-ing.

[jbenet]

(or i may not have succeeded)

[jbenet]

yeah this sucks. maybe they're still referenced by some object somewhere.

[dignifiedquire]

Not seeing this in new clones anymore.

Just saw it again:

lars@biham:~$ git clone https://github.com/ipfs/distributions.git
Cloning into 'distributions'...
remote: Counting objects: 834, done.
remote: Total 834 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 834
Receiving objects: 100% (834/834), 162.10 MiB | 29.87 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (399/399), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

[dignifiedquire]

@lgierth any idea how to fix this?

[Kubuxu]

Problem is with gen-webpage page which still links old commit chain.

To fix it run following. It will REMOVE gen-webpage branch from existence.

git push origin :gen-webpage # this alone might be enough for GH to figure out gc pattern but future steps ensure that and will remove 160MB from local repo
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git fsck --full --unreachable
git repack -A -d
git gc --aggressive --prune=now
git push

[dignifiedquire]

@diasdavid can we just delete the gen-webpage branch? or is there anything relevant you still need on there?

[daviddias]

@dignifiedquire feel free to delete :)

The branch is removed and I think this is fixed now.

> git clone [email protected]:ipfs/distributions.git
Cloning into 'distributions'...
remote: Counting objects: 902, done.
remote: Total 902 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 902
Receiving objects: 100% (902/902), 2.30 MiB | 1.05 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (477/477), done.
Checking connectivity... done.