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Request Garbage Collection

Edward Lynch
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April 3, 2025

Hi - I have cleaned up and rewritten the history on a large repo but Bitbucket shows the size has grown larger to 2.7GB. Could a garbage collection be run on the remote side for us? The object count git command is showing it should be around 211MB now.

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Ben
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April 3, 2025

Hi @Edward Lynch 

It's actually expected for a repo to increase in size after performing maintenance operations, as it creates garbage that needs to be cleaned from our side with a server-side garbage collection.

I've executed a gc against your repository and it has reduced it from 2.7GB to 212MB.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

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Mikael Sandberg
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April 3, 2025

Hi @Edward Lynch,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

I have notified the Atlassian support team that is on here and they will reach out to you within 2 business days to get this resolved. 

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