Size of the repo is enormous

[Cally99]

I just did git clone

https://github.com/strapi/foodadvisor

Why is it 500+ mb size?

[dpflug]

I didn't investigate fully, but a shallow clone helped.

[RamyAlshurafa]

even the shallow clone doesn't work

git clone --depth 1  https://github.com/strapi/foodadvisor.git

Cloning into 'foodadvisor'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 291, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (291/291), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (195/195), done.
error: 6598 bytes of body are still expected| 75.00 KiB/s  
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

[EdwardBlair]

I would imagine api/data.zip is the culprit, it is around 50MB.

Any time this has been modified the old version remains in the git history - it is about 50MB in size. I did some sleuthing and it has been included/modified 36 times ~1GB. Which possibly compresses down to 500MB if a lot of the data is the same?

Need a git expert to chime in on this, would need to prune them from the git history and force push perhaps?