This repo is enormous

[ampersandre]

I cloned the repo today and noticed that it was taking quite a while.

Ended up with this output:

> git clone https://github.com/googlecodelabs/workbox-lab.git
Cloning into 'workbox-lab'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 18, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (18/18), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14/14), done.
remote: Total 3781 (delta 11), reused 8 (delta 4), pack-reused 3763
Receiving objects: 100% (3781/3781), 46.14 MiB | 475.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2289/2289), done.

Whoa, 46.14 MiB

Looking through the GitHub api, we can see that the size is 47254kb:
https://api.github.com/repos/googlecodelabs/workbox-lab

Is there a way to clean up the packfile?

[DavidScales]

Hi ampersandre, thanks for pointing this out. Investigating a little, it looks like we created this repo on top of another larger repo, and so git is tracking a bunch of history for that - including some pretty large binaries and I'm sure a ton of images.

I'm not that git savvy to know how to fix that without some time researching, and since it's not mission critical I'll probably have to defer it for now. But we will try to get to it at some point.

Reminder to future self / team:

• This article may describe a solution for the issue
• Be sure not to break any forks!

[Chris-Walsh]

Addition to future reminder:

• More information/potential solution to reducing the pack size can be found here.