Reduce the size of our gitrepository

[ezyang]

There are a lot of binary files that should... not be in here

$ find . -type f -not -path "./.git/*" -exec du -h {} + | sort -rh | head -n 20
 45M	./ui/desktop/src/platform/windows/bin/uv.exe
 29M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/focus5.jpg
 26M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/focus3.jpg
 23M	./ui/desktop/src/platform/windows/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
 23M	./ui/desktop/src/bin/libstdc++-6.dll
 22M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/swag.jpg
 19M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/focus.jpg
 18M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/swag1.jpg
 18M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/speaker1.jpg
 18M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/fun1.jpg
 17M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/focus2.jpg
 16M	./documentation/static/videos/hero_light.mp4
 16M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/fun.jpg
 15M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/swag2.jpg
 14M	./documentation/docs/assets/goose-in-action.mp4
 13M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/swag3.jpg
 13M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/focus4.jpg
 11M	./documentation/static/videos/hero_dark.mp4
9.2M	./documentation/docs/assets/goose-in-action.gif
9.2M	./documentation/blog/2025-04-17-goose-goes-to-NY/speaker.jpg

To fix this you'll have to do some history rewriting so it will be disruptive, but really these should not be checked into VCS.

[DOsinga]

these files are big, but since we've decided to go with a monorepo, the documentation and their images are going to land here. I think ./ui/desktop/src/bin/libstdc++-6.dll could probably go though

[jamadeo]

All of ui/desktop/src/platform/windows/bin looks pretty questionable.

I don't think the history-rewriting is an option but we should get those out.

[denysvitali]

documentation/blog also has a lot of (useless?) files that add up to 400MB.

│ 465.24 MiB |   46.2%  ████▋      | /.git  
│ 449.00 MiB |   44.6%  ████▌      | /documentation  
│  79.90 MiB |    7.9%  ▊          | /ui                             
│  11.61 MiB |    1.2%  ▏          | /crates    
│ 228.00 KiB |    0.0%             | /.github 

UI is also unreasonably big - why are you storing binaries (exe files????) in the repo?

┌ ui/desktop/src/platform/windows/bin (9 visible, 9 total, 69.00 MiB) 
│  45.09 MiB |   65.3%  ██████▌    |  uv.exe  
│  22.63 MiB |   32.8%  ███▎       |  libstdc++-6.dll 
│ 652.00 KiB |    0.9%  ▏          |  libgcc_s_seh-1.dll 
│ 328.00 KiB |    0.5%             |  uvx.exe 
│ 312.00 KiB |    0.4%             |  libwinpthread-1.dll
│   4.00 KiB |    0.0%             |  npx.cmd
│   4.00 KiB |    0.0%             |  jbang.cmd
│   4.00 KiB |    0.0%             |  install-node.cmd
│   4.00 KiB |    0.0%             |  README.md

[alexhancock]

@denysvitali documentation contains thing for blog posts etc, we could maybe explore moving to a CMS but a bigger change @block/goose-devrel would likely want to drive

As for the binaries in ui/desktop/src/platform/windows/bin I don't know.

@jamadeo are they hermit oriented?

in general though I don't think 60mb there is going to make a huge difference

[michaelneale]

unfortunately - without re-writing history (ie basically a brand new repo) it isn't possible to get rid of enough to make a difference - so if we want to do that, we can, but @DOsinga last we spoke, worried about losing history, but we can have a separate discussion about that if we need to, as yeah, it is chunky.

[denysvitali]

It is possibile, but it will rewrite the history (commits are kept): https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/faq/git-filter-repo