Hello, you can use bfg-repo-cleaner ,
have a read to this document, in the section "eliminate big files from repo" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jxg7KCMQq3kiCcvodQk9JgtU51LqczOwLit1gHiTP4Q/edit?usp=sharing Best wishes. *Stefano * Stefano Mangiola | Postdoctoral fellow Papenfuss Laboratory The Walter Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research +61 (0)466452544 Il giorno mar 9 mar 2021 alle ore 09:11 Nitesh Turaga < nturaga.b...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hi Alan, > > Did you manage to solve this? > > There seems to be objects in your git repo which are bigger than the size > which is required by Bioconductor for a software package. Please check > hidden files as well. > > One test you can do is, to clone your package from github and see how much > MB are downloaded to this new location. This is a good test to check which > files are still larger than the limit. > > Best, > > Nitesh > > On 3/4/21, 11:19 AM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Murphy, Alan E" < > bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of a.mur...@imperial.ac.uk> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am working on the development of EWCE< > https://github.com/NathanSkene/EWCE> for submission to Bioconductor. I > have removed some large objects from the package and moved them to a > separate ExperimentHub package however, after their removal, I got a > BiocCheck large file warning. > > To deal with the data stored in git history, I followed the > instructions to use the BFG cleaner with the max size set to 5MB. This > appeared to work and some things were removed but yet I still get the > warning below: > > $warning[1] "The following files are over 5MB in size: > '.git/objects/pack/pack-366a7ab7a2ba4e656f3a9f3f1408be7ab9f41303.pack'" > > If I try to rerun the BFG cleaner I get the following output: > > > Warning : no large blobs matching criteria found in packfiles - does > the repo need to be packed? > > I have tried two different methods to using the BFG cleaner, one from > BFG<https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/> themselves and one from > Bioconductor< > https://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/remove-large-data/>. I > have also completed all steps in both including the prune step: > > > git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive > > I have even tried reducing the max from 5MB to 1MB but still nothing > seems to be left eve at that size. Does anyone know of another way to sort > this issue or have any clue what I may be doing wrong? > > Kind regards, > Alan. > > Alan Murphy > Bioinformatician > Neurogenomics lab > UK Dementia Research Institute > Imperial College London > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
