Reduce repo size of www-gitlab-com repo using git-filter-repo
This is a placeholder issue, for using approaches such as git-filter-repo
to reduce the www-gitlab-com repo size using git: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/reducing_the_repo_size_using_git.html
Ideally, we would want to wait until we do other optimizations in the epic to prevent the size from increasing again, but given the performance problems we have encountered with the merge train due to Gitaly load, we may want to do this sooner than later. We need more information on the impact and priority.
Prerequisites
- We should ensure we remove the changelog from being committed to the repo prior to doing this, as it probably accounts for a lot of the size.
Edited by Chad Woolley