Consider cleaning up the `.git` folder to reduce the large repo size

[NTBBloodbath]

Consider cleaning up the `.git` folder to reduce the large repo size

[clason]

OK, I dug a little deeper. The issue is that packer clones with --no-single-branch, which pulls in metadata for all current branches -- some of which apparently still have the appimage in them. Pruning the offending branches should be enough to reduce the footprint of the clones.

[clason]

And it's (only) the path branch, to be precise. (Still a good idea to delete the other closed/merged branches as well.)

[tjdevries]

Is there a way I can do this for other people? I just ran these locally but I don't think it did anything for pushing... haha I'm not an expert in this area of git

[NTBBloodbath]

Yes, after cleaning it should be enough to do git push origin --force -all.

Edit: it will rewrite all the commits because of the git filter-branch command, but I think it's a better approach than creating a new branch to start again and lose the git commits logs.

[clason]

Just a small data point: the slow download is in fact an issue with Telescope's minimal.lua, since it needs to bootstrap plenary (which it does async, so there's a good chance the user will run into problems if they miss the "ready" prompt...)

[clason]

Maybe https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo is a better approach?

1. pip3 install git-filter-repo
2. git filter-repo --strip-blobs-bigger-than 1M
3. git push origin --force

This will still rewrite history, of course, breaking current clones (and PRs), though.