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Perhaps now is a good time to recommend the ever-popular BFG to anyone unaware: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

Also my team's biggest repo is a 2.5 GB checkout but gitlab (self-managed) reports it as 185MB "files" and 353 MB "storage" (no CI/CD artifacts).

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Similarly there's also git-filter-repo: https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo

It's in Python so runs pretty much everywhere *nix out of the box.

> erhaps now is a good time to recommend the ever-popular BFG to anyone unaware: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

Thanks for sharing this tool to help cleanup the Git history. Please be aware that it will rewrite the history, which could be very impactful to existing branches, merge requests and local clones. A similar approach is described in the documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/reducing_...

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