How can I clean my .git folder? Cleaned up my project directory, but .git is still massive

Question

The .git/objects in my rails project directory is still massive, after deleting hundreds of Megabytes of accidentally generated garbage.

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Answer 1

Sparkleshare created 13GB of tmp_pack_ files in my git after failing to pull many times a huge images checkin. The only thing that helped was ...

rm -f .git/objects/*/tmp_*

'git gc' did not remove those files.