Hi Gabriel, You can find how to use BFG and other related recommendations at the R devel book: https://contributions.bioconductor.org/git-version-control.html?q=BFG#removing-large-files-from-history-with-bfg-repo-cleaner
I hope this helps with this and other questions, Lluís On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 at 01:05, Ali Sajid Imami <ali.sajid.im...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am not part of the core Bioconductor team, but I have been in this > situation before. I would suggest you use the BFG Repo Cleaner ( > https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/) to remove the errant bam file > from your repo's history. It's very likely that adding and removing the bam > file means that that file is still part of the history. That should help > you cut down on the size. > > > Regards, > Dr. Ali Sajid Imami > LinkedIn <https://pk.linkedin.com/pub/ali-sajid-imami/50/956/2a6> > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7:17 PM gabriel.villa...@mdc-berlin.de < > gabriel.villa...@mdc-berlin.de> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > This is my first message to the mailing list so apologies if I am > breaking > > any guidelines. > > > > I am submitting a package called Ribostan and the build report gives an > > error that the package tarball exceeds the size requirement. I am also > > being warned that individual package files exceed the 5MB size limit. > > > > The total size of a fresh clone of my package is 5.9MB, but 3.9MB of that > > is from the single packfile in .git/objects/pack. As I understand, the > > packfile contains the history of all files that have ever been in the > > repository, including files that have been deleted. > > > > I am wondering if this packfile is what is inflating my package size in > > the build and whether there is a solution to reduce its size. In case it > is > > relevant: at some point a 1.38MB bam file was committed to the repo as > toy > > data for running examples, but has since been deleted. I am also > wondering > > why an individual file is reported to be exceeding 5MB when I don’t see > any > > such file in my repo. > > > > Any advice would be very welcome! > > > > Best regards, > > Gabriel > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel