Using https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo it looks like the size of the repo (7GB++) is due to the gh-pages branch containing a lot of pages and all the history.
Solutions:
purge history from gh-pages branch
have the deployed site not in a branch, but different repo
Using https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo it looks like the size of the repo (7GB++) is due to the
gh-pages
branch containing a lot of pages and all the history.Solutions:
gh-pages
branch