# How GitHub Reduced Repo Storage Size by Over 90%

DevFeed: [How GitHub Reduced Repo Storage Size by Over 90%](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-github-reduced-repo-storage-size-by-over-90-17972.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-github-reduced-repo-storage-size>)

Author: Richard Oliver Bray

Published: 2024-11-20T14:03:31Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hacking Scale by Better Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hacking-scale-by-better-stack.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how GitHub identified unreachable Git data that was consuming storage and reduced the size of specific projects by more than 90%. It introduces Git objects, branches, and the ways objects can become unreachable.

## Source excerpt

GitHub tackled its data overload by introducing a completely new type of file