How to reduce the size of GIT?

Question

git

There were a lot of changes in the course of work. As a result, the git now weighs 2.5 gigabytes. is it possible to somehow cut off the history of not even a year ago, but better than a month ago?

Answer 1

Yes, you can reduce the size of the repository.
For example, removing heavy binaries.
Read about git filter-branch
Clean Up History -git rebase

Answer 2

Merge commits with git rebase.
Well, git-archive has not been canceled

Answer 3

You can still like this prune/gc