Make Git consume less disk space?

Question

What is the best way for git to consume less disk space?

I\'m using git-gc on my repositories (which does help, especially if there have been many commits since it w

Answer 1

Every git repository contains the entire history. While git does a fairly good job of compressing this stuff, there's simply a lot of data in there.

The "obvious" but potentially not-possible-for-you solution is to start a new repository without all that old history.