Repo size/binary files

I just fetched from facebook/react-native and was pretty shocked to see that it downloaded another ~100 MB of data.

A quick look at --stat revealed that 8 new binary jar files were added to the repo:

$ du -sh ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/kotlin/1.6.10/
102M	ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/kotlin/1.6.10/

Is there a way these files can be fetched on demand from a central repository like other Java/Maven dependencies instead?

As you probably know, the increase in repo size is permanent (even if the files are deleted/updated again later), except if the history is rewritten (which of course is not an option).

facebook/react-native is already up to >800 MB. That’s just the repo size alone, without a checked out working tree.

#33168

[cortinico]

Thanks for raising this issue. @ShikaSD looked into making sure we don’t bundle them inside the NPM package at least.

As you probably know, the increase in repo size is permanent (even if the files are deleted/updated again later), except if the history is rewritten (which of course is not an option).

As you mentioned, now the “damage” is done. Sorry for that. I think we should look into findign a different approach to make sure we don’t add 100+ whenever we bump a minor version of Kotlin.

[friederbluemle]

Thanks @cortinico and @ShikaSD 👏 👍