Git Fast-Forward Fail

• git
• Terminal
• BitBucket

July 17, 2025 at 9:30PM

Ran afoul fo BitBucket repository limits recently. I ended up trying a number of foreign git commands and failing (including this post).

Turns out it was easier to simply write my history to a text file. Then delete and recreate a new smaller repo from the latest branch. Something had cause my page file to baloon to 500mb when the actuall files we only 1.5m

• Log Command: git log > commit_history.txt
• Git size: du -sh .git

Once that was done I used the BitBucket web interface to create a repo with the same name. It worked well. Did lose history but if I really to see some bread crumbs I can view the text file.

Happy Coding ;-)