Do we really care about our git history?

[aa-dit-yuh]

We currently have over 2 years of git history, which has bloated the size of the repo to >800MB. Should we consider squashing all commits every yearly archival?

[pranitbauva1997]

You can use git clone --depth=1 <url> while cloning if it is too problematic to download full 800MB.

Otherwise, the size of the repo is this big because of the big image files. You can run git-filter-branch and clean up the previous images. That one will reduce the size of the repo drastically.

[pranitbauva1997]

This article on Removing sensitive data from a repository might be an interesting read.