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Update reducing-repo-size page with more info

John Lyttle requested to merge jlyttle-master-patch-73395 into master

What does this MR do and why?

  • Prior to Step 5 in the doc, it does not mention that you have to CD to the "project.git" directory in order to be able to execute the next command
git filter-repo --strip-blobs-bigger-than 10M
  • From researching a support ticket I found that using BFG Repo-cleaner it will automatically delete all commits references except for the latest commit. This was a usecase in the following zendesk ticket

MR acceptance checklist

This checklist encourages us to confirm any changes have been analyzed to reduce risks in quality, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.

Edited by Amy Qualls

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