[Bioc-devel] Removal of large items in git history - BiocCheck warning

Nitesh Turaga ntur@g@@b|oc @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Mon Mar 8 23:11:06 CET 2021


Hi Alan,

Did you manage to solve this? 

There seems to be objects in your git repo which are bigger than the size which is required by Bioconductor for a software package. Please check hidden files as well. 

One test you can do is, to clone your package from github and see how much MB are downloaded to this new location. This is a good test to check which files are still larger than the limit.

Best,

Nitesh 

On 3/4/21, 11:19 AM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Murphy, Alan E" <bioc-devel-bounces using r-project.org on behalf of a.murphy using imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

    Hi all,

    I am working on the development of EWCE<https://github.com/NathanSkene/EWCE> for submission to Bioconductor. I have removed some large objects from the package and moved them to a separate ExperimentHub package however, after their removal, I got a BiocCheck large file warning.

    To deal with the data stored in git history, I followed the instructions to use the BFG cleaner with the max size set to 5MB. This appeared to work and some things were removed but yet I still get the warning below:

    $warning[1] "The following files are over 5MB in size: '.git/objects/pack/pack-366a7ab7a2ba4e656f3a9f3f1408be7ab9f41303.pack'"

    If I try to rerun the BFG cleaner I get the following output:


    Warning : no large blobs matching criteria found in packfiles - does the repo need to be packed?

    I have tried two different methods to using the BFG cleaner, one from BFG<https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/> themselves and one from Bioconductor<https://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/remove-large-data/>. I have also completed all steps in both including the prune step:


    git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive

    I have even tried reducing the max from 5MB to 1MB but still nothing seems to be left eve at that size. Does anyone know of another way to sort this issue or have any clue what I may be doing wrong?

    Kind regards,
    Alan.

    Alan Murphy
    Bioinformatician
    Neurogenomics lab
    UK Dementia Research Institute
    Imperial College London

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