Reduce repository size

[RoiArthurB]

Is your request related to a problem? Please describe. Today's GAMA's github repository (after a fresh clone dated on commit 3422b50da) size 1.4 GiB, but most of it (1.1GiB) is only dedicated to git history !!

Describe the improvement you'd like Maybe we could reduce size of this history in different ways :

• Remove detailed history after XXX commits
  • git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250 keep last 250 commits, remove 1,254 files, but history doesn't change size
• Remove detailed history after XXX commits + Lose track of deleted commits
  • git gc --aggressive --prune=now (didn't tried it)
• Squash legacy commits with a project rebase
• Else ? 🤷

[AlexisDrogoul]

Just to mention that we are also running out of LFS space...

[RoiArthurB]

Git LFS and Git history files are two things totally unrelated, first in practice, and second because gama-platform/gama repository doesn't use LFS :)

And the LFS GH's space should be resolved soon, it's a problem from one contributor on the experimental repository :)

[AlexisDrogoul]

Has the LFS problem on gama-platform/experimental been solved ?

[AlexisDrogoul]

I think we should move to a solution like the one exposed here (using a history repository): https://andrewlock.net/reducing-the-size-of-a-git-repository-with-git-replace/

[AlexisDrogoul]

I think that we can close this proposal, as GAMA 2.0 will have its own repository --