Need git pro to clean up old SMO binaries

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Summarize Functionality

Maybe @niphlod ? I would like to reduce the size of our repository by removing older versions of /bin/smo. I've done it on my own repositories but I'm scared to do anything with force on this beloved repo.

And I also don't know if this could be a PR or if it would only have to be done in master.

Is there a command that is similiar or close to what you are looking for?

No

Technical Details

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[potatoqualitee]

Oh! And getting rid of older versions of allcommands.ps1 in the root

[potatoqualitee]

Following this tutorial from github, in part, it'd be:

mkdir dbaclean
cd dbaclean
git clone --mirror https://github.com/dataplat/dbatools.git
java -jar C:\github\bfg.jar --strip-blobs-bigger-than 2M dbatools.git
cd .\dbatools.git\
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --prune=now --aggressive
git push --force

Dev is our default branch but we push the finals to master, will this fix master as well? Will it fix dev? Is there anything else I have to do?

[potatoqualitee]

This will delete 2MB files and bigger, but I also want all history of bin/smo, even files smaller than 2MB, and I need to figure out how.

[potatoqualitee]

Ahh

java -jar C:\github\bfg.jar --delete-folders smo dbatools.git

So maybe

mkdir dbaclean
cd dbaclean
git clone --mirror https://github.com/dataplat/dbatools.git
java -jar C:\github\bfg.jar --strip-blobs-bigger-than 2M --delete-folders "{smo, coreclr}" dbatools.git
cd .\dbatools.git\
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --prune=now --aggressive
git push --force

[potatoqualitee]

yay down to 85mb from like 225

[potatoqualitee]

This is now done!

Anyone with a fork of the repository: please reset your copy to the latest head, or delete and re-fork the repository. This will prevent the repo from bloating back up when you submit a PR. I'll be asking this in all PRs for the next 6 months or so and will close any PR that contains the old files, thank you.

You'll notice when you reclone that it's now far faster 🥳

Now to figure out how to add that as a check to PRs 🤔