9mCollab VS git-sizer

• Free Trial
  30-Day Free Trial, No Credit Card Needed
• Communication
  Workgroup, topic and 1-on-1 chat
• Calls
  Video and audio
• Users
  Members, guests, visitors
• User Groups
  Based on team, department, skills, location etc.
• Knowledge Base
  Share workgroup conclusions with the rest of the organization. Add tags for easy discovery, highlight knowledge, receive valuable feedback
• Conclusions
  Get to the results of communication fast. For decisions, next steps, minutes of meetings, content creation, procedures, strategy, or any problem-solving usecase
• File sharing
  All sorts of documents, links, easy to find
• Workgroups
  Organize communication and add members, guests, visitors
• Profile
  Add photo, general information, bio, skills. See stats from your activity
• 360 evaluation
  Evaluate workgroup members based on set of predefined criteria
• Voting
  Team alignment on a conclusion through voting options and duration
• Topics
  Create various topics and subtopics in the workgroup
• Communication tree
  Clear visibility of all topics in the workgroup
• Admin Seats
  Multiple admin roles for managing the organization account
• Explore
  Explore all members, workgroups, conclusions and skills of your organization
• Skill
  Add skills to your profile or workgroup. Set the level of the skill

• Comprehensive Repository Analysis
  git-sizer analyzes many different dimensions of a Git repository including commit count, tree size, blob size, history depth, and reference counts, providing a holistic view of repository health and potential scaling issues.
• Easy to Use
  The tool is simple to run with minimal setup—just execute it within a git repository—and it produces clear, human-readable output that highlights potential problem areas without requiring complex configuration.
• Identifies Performance Bottlenecks
  It helps identify specific issues that could degrade Git performance, such as excessively large blobs, deep history, large trees, or too many references, which is valuable before migrating or scaling repositories.
• Open Source and Maintained by GitHub
  Being an official GitHub project, it benefits from credibility, community trust, and ongoing maintenance, and it is well documented with clear explanations of what each metric means.
• Useful for Pre-Migration Checks
  It's particularly helpful for teams migrating repositories to new platforms or consolidating repos, as it flags potential issues that could cause problems during migration or with hosting providers' limits.

Possible disadvantages

• No Automatic Remediation
  git-sizer only identifies and reports issues but does not offer any built-in tools or automated processes to fix problems like large blobs or excessive history depth—users must use separate tools like BFG Repo-Cleaner or git-filter-repo.
• Output Can Be Overwhelming for Beginners
  While detailed, the output includes many metrics and threshold levels that may be confusing for users unfamiliar with Git internals, requiring some learning curve to fully interpret results.
• Limited to Local Analysis
  The tool analyzes a local clone of the repository, so it requires users to have a full local copy of the repo (or at least enough history) to get accurate results, which can be time-consuming for very large repositories.
• No Real-Time Monitoring
  It functions as a one-time analysis tool rather than providing continuous or real-time monitoring of repository health, requiring manual reruns to track changes over time.
• Command-Line Only Interface
  The tool lacks a graphical user interface, which may be less accessible for users who prefer visual dashboards or are less comfortable with command-line tools.

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Tracking 9mCollab since Mar 2021.

• how to keep github repos small?

  Also there’s a cool project from GitHub you can use to help understand the size of git’s objects in your git repo https://github.com/github/git-sizer. This might help you determine what the best cloning strategy could be. Source: almost 5 years ago