The .git directory is 5GB big, could be much smaller

[rodet]

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I was cleaning out my code directory and noticed Carbon for IBM.com was in the bigger segment (5.4GB disk usage). It turns out this is the .git directory. As history is not needed on gh-pages, so it might be wise to use git push -f while publishing to the gh-pages branch. This would get rid of more than 12000 extraneous commits (the branch current directory size is around 500MB).

Intent

It would make cloning and using the repository faster, and consume less space on the developer systems.

Solution

Replace all instances of git push origin gh-pageswith git push -f origin gh-pages

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