Large size of repository

[akshaykulkarni07]

The repository is very large to download (around 150 MB). Most of this is in the .git file because of the large number of commits and multiple branches. Is there a way to reduce the size? because cloning the repo will take up a lot more space (the actual code is barely 2 or 3 MB).
@SharathRaparthy @navidpanchi

[navidpanchi]

Okay so maybe we can create a back up repo and delete the old commits from master once we are done refactoring and testing. Check this link.

[SharathRaparthy]

Yes: check this

[akshaykulkarni07]

There is another thing. There is a 'squash and merge' option in PRs. That combines the entire branch commits into a single commit. So, that will reduce the number of commits (for further PRs).