How to reduce git repo size on Bitbucket?
Summary of my problem: One of my private repositories on Bitbucket suddenly more than doubled in size after I pushed an addition of a few hundred bytes to two existing files. The repo is now over 2GB, which has caused Bitbucket to put it into read-only mode. Because it is in read-only mode, I cannot push changes that would reduce the repo size. (Catch 22.) Details: My company recently began hosting git repositories on Bitbucket. One of the repositories I am in charge of had a size of about 973MB, which was uncomfortably close to the 1GB soft limit. To reduce the repo size, I followed the