Cleaning up git repos

Notes on git cleaning

A 11 MB repo went to 10mb with these commands:

There will be nothing to commit 🤔

git gc --aggressive --prune=now

Squashing could be a solution

• But wont work if there are merge commits

Reset history:

• Copy and paste the bellow to reset repo to 1 init commit with all current files (Make a backup first, this series of commands are non recovarable)

  git checkout --orphan newBranch
  git add -A
  git commit -m "Init"
  git branch -D master
  git branch -m master
  git push -f origin master
  git gc --aggressive --prune=all
  

• Ref: https://gist.github.com/stephenhardy/5470814
• bash script that does the same: https://gist.github.com/Zibri/76614988478a076bbe105545a16ee743

Alternative:

git init
git add .
git commit -m 'Initial commit'
git remote add origin [repo_address]
git push --mirror --force