On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:55:30PM -0600, Robert Dailey wrote: > What I'd like to do is somehow hunt down the largest commit (*not* > blob) in the entire history of the repository to hopefully find out > where huge directories have been checked in. > > I can't do a search for largest file (which most google results seem > to show to do) since the culprit is really thousands of unnecessary > files checked into a single subdirectory somewhere in history. Other people have offered scripts to look at commit sizes. But it might also be useful to see sizes by subdirectory. Sort of a "du" across all of history. Script is below. Note that this script also uses cat-file's "%(objectsize:disk)". So it is finding the actual on-disk storage, taking into account delta storage. You will need git v1.8.5 or later to use this feature. git rev-list --objects --all | git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk) %(rest)" | perl -lne ' my ($size, $path) = split / /, $_, 2; next unless defined $path; # commit obj do { $sizes{$path} += $size; } while ($path =~ s{/[^/]+$}{}); END { print "$sizes{$_} $_" for (keys %sizes) } ' | sort -rn -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html