Unusually large repo size when running git clone about ember HOT 5 CLOSED

For what it is worth... I ran a git gc --aggressive on our copy of this repo, and it make the pack file go from 1.6gb to 100mb.

Someone who has control over this repo could do that for this remote copy.

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Not sure how to tell GitHub's servers to run git gc...

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So, one thing you can do is just to run...

git gc --aggressive

... on your own machine and then delete the repo and immediately re-create and push.

It's just an issue with the remote hosted by github.

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That might create a situation where you'd lose all GitHub specific data (issues/stars and whatnot) though... We didn't have to think about this issue with our internal copy.

It may be a better idea to file a support ticket with GitHub.

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I deleted a few larger branches, I believe that will resolve this...

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