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Gets the top 500 biggest blobs in your repo, ordered by size they occupy when compressed in the packfile
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get-500-biggest-blobs.sh
git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/*.idx | grep blob | cut -c1-40,48- | cut -d' ' -f1,3 | sort -n -r --key 2 | head -500 > top-500-biggest-blobs.txt
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rtyley commented Feb 4, 2013

Since writing this gist I've created The BFG Repo-Cleaner, a faster, simpler alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history:

  • Removing Crazy Big Files
  • Removing Passwords, Credentials & other Private data

The BFG is 10 - 50x faster than git-filter-branch, turning an overnight job into one that takes less than ten minutes.

http://rtyley.github.com/bfg-repo-cleaner/

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Is it possible to display the file name of the blobs?
Merge with git log --name-only or something else, I don't know how to do this, can you please tell me how?

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