Thank you for looking into this. I have removed all the unnecessary refs on remote, and rerun the filter-repo and force pushed the changes again. To be be sure, I have also requested Github support to completely nuke the refs/pull and clear cache etc. Also would like to let you know that git-filter-repo --analyze (which was also suggested by EriK), causes OOM in my case (also tried running in github actions with huge swap, but it exceeds 6 hours timeout limit). I have verified size reduction (after running filter-repo) using: `git gc && git count-objects -vH` Thank you once again for the help