โœ‚๏ธ FinderGit 0.15.0 โ€” reclaim the disk space your Git history is quietly hoarding ๐Ÿงน

Your .git can balloon for a reason no routine cleanup ever fixes: its history pins far more than your working copy needs โ€” a stale branch left after a big merge, or a clone that dragged in a much bigger upstream. Git won't drop history a branch or remote still points to, so a normal gc can't touch it.

๐Ÿ‘‰ The last release told you why a repo was heavy. This one lets you fix it.

The new Clean up history flow (Maintenance tab) removes exactly those culprits โ€” and it's built to be careful:

๐Ÿ” Shows what each removal would actually free before anything changes โ€” a branch whose history is already part of your work frees nothing, so it's skipped, never deleted

โ™ป๏ธ Saves an undo record (remote URLs, branch commit IDs) before removing a single ref

๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Never touches your checked-out branch ยท over-wide remotes are always recoverable ยท won't run mid-rebase or mid-merge

๐Ÿ“Š Ends with the on-disk before โ†’ after + an integrity check

โšก The kind of repo that's mostly foreign history can drop from gigabytes back to the few megabytes your project actually is.

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Native macOS ยท free ยท signed & notarized ยท macOS 15+

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Curious what your heaviest repo turns out to be hiding ๐Ÿ‘€

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