Error: You have exceeded your disk space quota error message in git

Question

When I try to push to my repositoty I see the following error message:

Error: You have exceeded your disk space quota.
Please upgrade your account or remove some data.

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

To create more space, I am trying to delete a remote branch that is no longer needed. But it wont let me push to delete the remote branch.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Answer 1

I was hoping I can cleanup some redundant stuff and create more space

You couldn't reduce significantly the size of an upstream repo from a downstream location.
That upstream repo is likely a bare repo, and even deleting a branch wouldn't change much (a branch is just a pointer, and the reflog of that repo would still have the reference of the commits for that branch.

All the commands mentioned in "Reduce git repository size" are local commands.

So even without increasing the disk space, you would still need an admin to go on that server an clean that repo for you.