On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:28:00AM -0700, Kai Zhang wrote: > I have a git repository maintaining one large json file (along with > several other small files). With commits for large json file, the > repository become bigger and bigger, so I tried to run command "git gc > --prune=now --aggressive" to reduce disk usage, then I found .git > folder size did not change. I had wonderful experience with git gc > against files around 10M to 20M, and I am wondering if there is any > configuration need to tweak for large text files? > > Here I have more details: > 1. Json file size: 1G
Git won't try to delta-compress anything over 500MB by default. Try: git config core.bigfilethreshold 2G git gc --aggressive -Peff
