Find size of Git repository

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What s a simple way to find the size of my Git repository   And I don t mean du -h on the root directory of my repository  I have a lot of ignored files  so that size would be different from my total repository size  I essentially want to know how much data would be transferred upon cloning my repository

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If you use git LFS  git count-objects does not count your binaries  but only the pointers to them   If your LFS files are managed by Artifactorys  you should use the REST API    Get the www jfrog com API from any search engine Look at Get Storage Summary Info

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You can easily find the size of each of your repository in your Accounts settings

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If the repository is on GitHub  you can use the open source Android app Octodroid which displays the size of the repository by default   For example  with the mptcp repository       Disclaimer  I didn t create Octodroid

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UPDATE git 1 8 3 introduced a more efficient way to get a rough size  git count-objects -vH  see answer by  VonC    For different ideas of  complete size  you could use   git bundle create tmp bundle --all du -sh tmp bundle   Close  but not exact    git gc du -sh  git    With the latter  you would also be counting    hooks config  remotes  push branches  settings  whitespace  merge  aliases  user details etc   stashes  see Can I fetch a stash from a remote repo into a local branch  also  rerere cache  which can get considerable  reflogs  backups  from filter-branch  e g   and various other things  intermediate state from rebase  bisect etc

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You could use git-sizer  In the --verbose setting  the example output is  below   Look for the Total size of files line      git-sizer --verbose Processing blobs  1652370 Processing trees  3396199 Processing commits  722647 Matching commits to trees  722647 Processing annotated tags  534 Processing references  539   Name                           Value       Level of concern                   ----------------------------   ---------   ------------------------------     Overall repository size                                                         Commits                                                                         Count                        723 k                                            Total size                   525 MiB                                        Trees                                                                           Count                       3 40 M                                            Total size                  9 00 GiB                                          Total tree entries           264 M                                          Blobs                                                                           Count                       1 65 M                                            Total size                  55 8 GiB                                        Annotated tags                                                                  Count                        534                                            References                                                                      Count                        539                                                                                                                        Biggest objects                                                                 Commits                                                                         Maximum size          1     72 7 KiB                                          Maximum parents       2       66                                            Trees                                                                           Maximum entries       3     1 68 k                                          Blobs                                                                           Maximum size          4     13 5 MiB                                                                                                                    History structure                                                               Maximum history depth          136 k                                          Maximum tag depth       5        1                                                                                                                        Biggest checkouts                                                               Number of directories   6     4 38 k                                          Maximum path depth      7       13                                            Maximum path length     8      134 B                                          Number of files         9     62 3 k                                          Total size of files     9      747 MiB                                        Number of symlinks     10       40                                            Number of submodules             0                                          1   91cc53b0c78596a73fa708cceb7313e7168bb146  2   2cde51fbd0f310c8a2c5f977e665c0ac3945b46d  3   4f86eed5893207aca2c2da86b35b38f2e1ec1fc8  refs heads master arch arm boot dts   4   a02b6794337286bc12c907c33d5d75537c240bd0  refs heads master drivers gpu drm amd include asic reg vega10 NBIO nbio 6 1 sh mask h   5   5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c  refs tags v2 6 11   6   1459754b9d9acc2ffac8525bed6691e15913c6e2  589b754df3f37ca0a1f96fccde7f91c59266f38a  tree    7   78a269635e76ed927e17d7883f2d90313570fdbc  dae09011115133666e47c35673c0564b0a702db7  tree    8   ce5f2e31d3bdc1186041fdfd27a5ac96e728f2c5  refs heads master  tree    9   532bdadc08402b7a72a4b45a2e02e5c710b7d626  e9ef1fe312b533592e39cddc1327463c30b0ed8d  tree    10  f29a5ea76884ac37e1197bef1941f62fda3f7b99  f5308d1b83eba20e69df5e0926ba7257c8dd9074  tree

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The git command  git count-objects -v   will give you a good estimate of the git repository s size  Without the -v flag  it only tells you the size of your unpacked files  This command may not be in your  PATH  you may have to track it down  on Ubuntu I found it in  usr lib git-core   for instance    From the Git man-page      -v  --verbose      In addition to the number of loose objects and disk space consumed               it reports the number of in-pack objects  number of packs  disk              space consumed by those packs  and number of objects that can be              removed by running git prune-packed    Your output will look similar to the following   count  1910 size  19764 in-pack  41814 packs  3 size-pack  1066963 prune-packable  1 garbage  0   The line you re looking for is size-pack  That is the size of all the packed commit objects  or the smallest possible size for the new cloned repository

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I think this gives you the total list of all files in the repo history   git rev-list --objects --all   git cat-file --batch-check    objectsize    rest     cut -d    -f1   paste -s -d   -   bc   You can replace --all with a treeish  HEAD  origin master  etc   to calculate the size of a branch

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Note that  since git 1 8 3  April  22d 2013        git count-objects  learned  --human-readable  aka  -H  option to show various large numbers in Ki Mi GiB scaled as necessary    That could be combined with the -v option mentioned by Jack Morrison in his answer   git gc git count-objects -vH    git gc is important  as mentioned by A-B-B s answer   Plus  still git 1 8 3   the output is more complete       git count-objects -v  learned to report leftover temporary packfiles and other garbage in the object store

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