Random Wheel Spin VS git-sizer

• Hidden Information
  Save activities, actions, questions, answers, or facts behind each wheel entry, revealed after each spin. Images can be added to hidden information
• Bulk Media Insert
  You can drag and drop images in bulk—hundreds at once if you want.
• Full customization
  Change colors and add images to make the wheel feel personal.
• Free and No Sign-Up
  Everything is free with no sign-up account required.
• Easy data import
  Entire Excel or CSV spreadsheets can be uploaded in seconds. Data can also be copied directly from Google Sheets, saving huge amounts of time adding names to the wheel.
• Accessibility and inclusivity
  The wheel can speak aloud the selected result and hidden information.
• Sharing and embedding
  Wheels can be saved, shared with students or colleagues, or embedded directly into external websites.
• Language support
  Available in English and Spanish. More languages to come.
• Ready-made templates
  There are pre-built wheels in categories like Classroom and Learning, Games, Occasions and Events, Workplace, Everyday, Travel, and Days Out.

• 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.

Tracking Random Wheel Spin since Sep 2025.

• 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