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Unable to reduce repo size in Bitbucket after cleaning up

Glecko
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August 22, 2025

So my issue is very similar to this one:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Bitbucket-questions/Unable-to-reduce-repo-size-in-Bitbucket-after-cleaning-up/qaq-p/2850765

I've reduced the size of several of my repos (see r****s, and r****s-t***s) using BFG (deleting large blobs and adding files to LFS). When I clone the repos, my local size is indeed significantly lower. 

But the web interface continues to report the original size, or even larger repo sizes.

Can somebody run the git gc on the server-side repo that seemed to fix it in that other linked issue?

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Akhand Pratap Singh
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August 23, 2025

Hello @Glecko ,

Good day, Welcome to Atlassian Community!!

I have request Atlassian Support team for assistance, they will manually initiate garbage collection (GC), they will reach out to you on this same thread within 2 business days.

Best Regards,
Akhand

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