[SOLVED] /home/.git/objects is 47.1Gig in size

validator456 · 07-20-2017, 01:44 PM

I have been working with Git in order to learn from it. But I did something wrong to have a directory that large.

I have checked the internet to understand what I could have done wrong, but I didn't quite understand it.

First question: could someone explain to me, please, what I could have done wrong.
Second question: since this is just a tryout on my part without anyone participating, how can I make a fresh start? Simply deleting the contents of the folder?

NewbProgrammer · 07-20-2017, 02:38 PM

Help us help you.

Git usually has a tmp folder somewhere, and /home/.git might be a tmp folder.

Check and see if the .git folder contains source code for packages you use with git. If so, get rid of it unless you are using it for compiling.

The .git folder might also contain git repositories that you created and don't want to get rid of.

So overall, just go over packages in the .git folder that you don't want and remove them.

!!! · 07-20-2017, 02:50 PM

What did you ?clone?, "get", download? (were they "big trees"?)
Start over: uninstall git pkg, make sure .git is gone, install git, carefully understand what you "fetch"
(use very slow internet, but that's different&crazy idea)

Web-search Title keywords finds: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ository-so-big

validator456 · 07-20-2017, 03:20 PM

You probably not going to believe this. This is the folder that I found: /home/.git/vimrcfile/.git./ with all the folders like objects, hooks, branches, logs etc.

So essentially, I have a git within a git or something like that.

I am going to uninstall git like !!! has suggested. I will uninstall git and carefully understand what I fetch.

I am pretty new to this, so I really appreciate your answers. Thank you.

sundialsvcs · 07-20-2017, 03:34 PM

This folder is a Git repository. "Ook! Ugk! Major Voodoo!" Touch Not!

What's most likely to have happened here is that you aren't making good use of the .gitignore facility: you committed big binary files and maybe lots and lots of them, all of which don't need version-control.

validator456 · 07-21-2017, 02:22 AM

Yes, now I remember. I did exactly that, sundialsvcs