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

5GB vs 200MB is kind of weird. Try to run git gc.

But no, unless you split your repository into modules, you can't decrease the size of the .git directory.

Each clone of a git repo is a full fledged repository that can act as a server. That's the base principle of distributed version control.