[META] Repo size over 1GB

[goffxnca]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
not exactly a feature request, but i noticed the repo is over 1 GB right after cloning, which feels pretty big for a docs project. maybe it comes from large files or old artifacts hanging around in the .git history.

Describe the solution you'd like
i think maybe a history cleanup to get rid of any big or outdated files could be worth it.

Additional context
i checked for large files in the repo history, and here’s what came up:

git rev-list --objects --all | git cat-file --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname) %(objectsize) %(rest)' | sed -n 's/^blob //p' | sort --numeric-sort --key=2 | cut -c 1-12,41- | numfmt --field=2 --to=iec | tail -n 10

8d775968d852    9.3M website/build/vi/ts.worker.js
f7d42abd0ce4    9.3M website/build/zh-CN/ts.worker.js
8a3b535b2b91      10M docs/assets/ledger-mobile.gif
9873bfdbc146      12M website/build/assets/images/drawing-da1faed841bf6cdd04ef58ac661fc935.svg
b6bc8ffaf007      14M website/build/assets/images/drawing-26c4dc1344e7ded8ff6d12b6652e6788.svg
1c5372b39452      15M website/build/assets/images/drawing-c60718c18458bad7704e13baf87fb838.svg
bde38a8768dc      15M website/static/docs/assets/welcome-pages/drawing.svg
3a29c7e23132      20M website/build/assets/images/drawing-9dfd2072c04c4601eb4a98aa5b13a8ec.svg
a2d06f34d776      20M website/static/docs/assets/welcome-pages/drawing.svg
373540bf40ea      25M website/static/docs/assets/QAPIScreen.gif

most of these files aren’t in the main repo anymore, they’re still in .git and adding to the size. the only large file still in use is drawing.svg (20 MB), which is still too big for the web ideally it’d be around 50 or 200KB max.

also, when i checked dir sizes at root, .git alone was already 1 GB 👀

du -sh * .[^.]* | sort -h

4.0K	.gitignore
4.0K	CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
4.0K	CONTRIBUTING.md
4.0K	LICENSE-MIT.txt
4.0K	LOCALIZATION.md
4.0K	README.md
4.0K	yarn.lock
 12K	LICENSE-APACHE.txt
 48K	.github
 80K	blog
3.0M	docs
125M	website
1.0G	.git

feel free to dive in further!

[bucanero]

I think this is because we are deploying the docs site to the build branch. If you only checkout the master branch you shouldn't get 1 GB download.

[goffxnca]

you shouldn't get 1 GB download

hi @bucanero
just tested out cloning only master branch like suggested, turns out size is only 203.63 MB✅
and not 1 GB. so seems like the repo should be fine as is. thx again for taking the time to look into this!