The git-fatfiles script from Vi's answer is lovely if you want to see the size of all your blobs, but it's so slow as to be unusable. I removed the 40-line output limit, and it tried to use all my computer's RAM instead of finishing. Plus it would give inaccurate results when summing the output to see all space used by a file.
I rewrote it in Rust, which I find to be less error-prone than other languages. I also added the feature of summing up the space used by all commits in various directories if the --directories flag is passed. Paths can be given to limit the search to certain files or directories.
File src/main.rs
use std::{ collections::HashMap, io::{self, BufRead, BufReader, Write}, path::{Path, PathBuf}, process::{Command, Stdio}, thread, }; use bytesize::ByteSize; use structopt::StructOpt; #[derive(Debug, StructOpt)] #[structopt()] pub struct Opt { #[structopt( short, long, help("Show the size of directories based on files committed in them.") )] pub directories: bool, #[structopt(help("Optional: only show the size info about certain paths."))] pub paths: Vec<String>, } /// The paths list is a filter. If empty, there is no filtering. /// Returns a map of object ID -> filename. fn get_revs_for_paths(paths: Vec<String>) -> HashMap<String, PathBuf> { let mut process = Command::new("git"); let mut process = process.arg("rev-list").arg("--all").arg("--objects"); if !paths.is_empty() { process = process.arg("--").args(paths); }; let output = process .output() .expect("Failed to execute command git rev-list."); let mut id_map = HashMap::new(); for line in io::Cursor::new(output.stdout).lines() { if let Some((k, v)) = line .expect("Failed to get line from git command output.") .split_once(' ') { id_map.insert(k.to_owned(), PathBuf::from(v)); } } id_map } /// Returns a map of object ID to size. fn get_sizes_of_objects(ids: Vec<&String>) -> HashMap<String, u64> { let mut process = Command::new("git") .arg("cat-file") .arg("--batch-check=%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize:disk)") .stdin(Stdio::piped()) .stdout(Stdio::piped()) .spawn() .expect("Failed to execute command git cat-file."); let mut stdin = process.stdin.expect("Could not open child stdin."); let ids: Vec<String> = ids.into_iter().cloned().collect(); // copy data for thread // Stdin will block when the output buffer gets full, so it needs to be written // in a thread: let write_thread = thread::spawn(|| { for obj_id in ids { writeln!(stdin, "{}", obj_id).expect("Could not write to child stdin"); } drop(stdin); }); let output = process .stdout .take() .expect("Could not get output of command git cat-file."); let mut id_map = HashMap::new(); for line in BufReader::new(output).lines() { let line = line.expect("Failed to get line from git command output."); let line_split: Vec<&str> = line.split(' ').collect(); // skip non-blob objects if let [id, "blob", size] = &line_split[..] { id_map.insert( id.to_string(), size.parse::<u64>().expect("Could not convert size to int."), ); }; } write_thread.join().unwrap(); id_map } fn main() { let opt = Opt::from_args(); let revs = get_revs_for_paths(opt.paths); let sizes = get_sizes_of_objects(revs.keys().collect()); // This skips directories (they have no size mapping). // Filename -> size mapping tuples. Files are present in the list more than once. let file_sizes: Vec<(&Path, u64)> = sizes .iter() .map(|(id, size)| (revs[id].as_path(), *size)) .collect(); // (Filename, size) tuples. let mut file_size_sums: HashMap<&Path, u64> = HashMap::new(); for (mut path, size) in file_sizes.into_iter() { if opt.directories { // For file path "foo/bar", add these bytes to path "foo/" let parent = path.parent(); path = match parent { Some(parent) => parent, _ => { eprint!("File has no parent directory: {}", path.display()); continue; } }; } *(file_size_sums.entry(path).or_default()) += size; } let sizes: Vec<(&Path, u64)> = file_size_sums.into_iter().collect(); print_sizes(sizes); } fn print_sizes(mut sizes: Vec<(&Path, u64)>) { sizes.sort_by_key(|(_path, size)| *size); for file_size in sizes.iter() { // The size needs some padding--a long size is as long as a tabstop println!("{:10}{}", ByteSize(file_size.1), file_size.0.display()) } }
File Cargo.toml
[package] name = "git-fatfiles" version = "0.1.0" edition = "2018" [dependencies] structopt = { version = "0.3"} bytesize = {version = "1"}
Options
USAGE: git-fatfiles [FLAGS] [paths]... FLAGS: -d, --directories Show the size of directories based on files committed in them. -h, --help Prints help information ARGS: <paths>... Optional: only show the size info about certain paths.
git repack -a -dshrunk my 956MB repo to 250MB. Great success! Thanks!dumay be misleading about the super module being large, when it is in fact a submodule and the answers below need to be run in the submodule directory.