Find large files in your git repos

big_files.bash

#!/bin/bash
# big_files.bash

## Iterate over commit history and print big files and folders.
## usage: big_files.bash


# git-rev-list - print each revision in the HEAD reference
git rev-list --reverse HEAD \
| while read rev; do
echo "Current revision: $rev"
# git-checkout - Check out a revision locally. Send the warning to /dev/null
git checkout $rev 2>/dev/null

# du - Print the disk usage of a local project
# sort - sort each line descending numerically
# head - take the 10 largest files/folders
du -I ".git" \
	| sort -rn \
	| head -${nfiles:-"20"}

# Spacer
printf "######################\n\n"
done

# ZOMG We're done!
git checkout master