How to reduce git repo size on Bitbucket?

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I’ve found that the easiest way to reduce the Bitbucket repo size if you are over the 2GB limit is to

  1. Create a branch on Bitbucket
  2. Delete that branch on Bitbucket

This should trigger Bitbucket to run git gc on the repo.

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