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.
The answer is
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.
Note that, since git 1.8.3 (April, 22d 2013):
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git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to show various large numbers inKi/Mi/GiBscaled 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:
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git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary packfiles and other garbage in the object store.
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
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})
You can easily find the size of each of your repository in your Accounts settings
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.
Source: Stackoverflow.com