✂️ FinderGit 0.15.0 — reclaim the disk space your Git history is quietly hoarding 🧹
Your .git can balloon for a reason no routine cleanup ever fixes: its history pins far more than your working copy needs — 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.
👉 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 — and it's built to be careful:
🔍 Shows what each removal would actually free before anything changes — a branch whose history is already part of your work frees nothing, so it's skipped, never deleted
♻️ Saves an undo record (remote URLs, branch commit IDs) before removing a single ref
🛡️ Never touches your checked-out branch · over-wide remotes are always recoverable · won't run mid-rebase or mid-merge
📊 Ends with the on-disk before → after + an integrity check
⚡ The kind of repo that's mostly foreign history can drop from gigabytes back to the few megabytes your project actually is.
🖥️ Native macOS · free · signed & notarized · macOS 15+
Curious what your heaviest repo turns out to be hiding 👀
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