Find size of Git repository

Note that, since git 1.8.3 (April, 22d 2013):

"git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary.

That could be combined with the -v option mentioned by Jack Morrison in his answer.

git gc
git count-objects -vH

(git gc is important, as mentioned by A-B-B's answer)

Plus (still git 1.8.3), the output is more complete:

"git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary packfiles and other garbage in the object store.


UPDATE git 1.8.3 introduced a more efficient way to get a rough size: git count-objects -vH (see answer by @VonC)

For different ideas of "complete size" you could use:

git bundle create tmp.bundle --all
du -sh tmp.bundle

Close (but not exact:)

git gc
du -sh .git/

With the latter, you would also be counting:

  • hooks
  • config (remotes, push branches, settings (whitespace, merge, aliases, user details etc.)
  • stashes (see Can I fetch a stash from a remote repo into a local branch? also)
  • rerere cache (which can get considerable)
  • reflogs
  • backups (from filter-branch, e.g.) and various other things (intermediate state from rebase, bisect etc.)

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