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Large ".pack" file in repo causes very long clone time

See original GitHub issue

Hey,

While cloning the repo locally (over SSH) I noticed an unusually long clone time (~5min, 25MB). I tracked this down to this file stored in the git history:

.git/objects/pack/pack-0458eb2f12bd2dd2025bf18c69e7c95a24e8c1c3.pack

I suppose this may be from a previously large object stored in the repo, but not sure. Any idea?

This is not critical at all — just reporting because it could be a bit cumbersome for newcomers. 😃

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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4reactions

tomchristiecommented, Aug 16, 2019

Deleted the requests3 branch, which is the only place the large images were included.

Appears resolved to me now (based on cloning times before and after the delete).

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behrtamcommented, Aug 16, 2019

Seems to be about images in /docs…

pack-size   hash           path
13784 KiB   8d53a5a3bdd4   docs/img/compatibility.jpg
 5333 KiB   49b510fa81fb   docs/img/leaf.jpg
 1452 KiB   7c574313b78b   docs/img/async.jpg
 1008 KiB   6c6552645cc0   docs/img/quickstart.jpg
  545 KiB   029d9b390aaa   docs/img/advanced.jpg
  351 KiB   4f890d9a0e04   docs/img/parallel.jpg
  295 KiB   d2b8a6975c90   docs/img/requests-sidebar.png

How to remove those files form the history: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100907/how-to-remove-delete-a-large-file-from-commit-history-in-git-repository