How to shrink the .git folder

Question

My current base has a total size of approx. 200MB.

But my .git folder has an amazing size of 5GB (!). Since I push my work to an external server, i don\'t need any b

Answer 1

you should not delete all changes older than 30 days (i think it's somehow possible exploiting git, but really not recommended).

you can call git gc --aggressive --prune, which will perform garbage collection in your repository and prune old objects. do you have a lot of binary files (archives, images, executables) which change often? those usually lead to huge .git folders (remember, git stores snapshots for each revision and binary files compress badly)