How to find the N largest files in a git repository?

Question

I wanted to find the 10 largest files in my repository. The script I came up with is as follows:

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Answer 1

How about

git ls-files | xargs ls -l | sort -nrk5 | head -n 10

• git ls-files: List all the files in the repo
• xargs ls -l: perform ls -l on all the files returned in git ls-files
• sort -nrk5: Numerically reverse sort the lines based on 5th column
• head -n 10: Print the top 10 lines