Hello,

I have around 6.9GB of artifacts (mainly old releases) that were pushed as “uploads” in a project on gitlab.com.

We are migrating to the better suited packages as I try to implement best practices, but I need to purge those files from the uploads section which is not currently possible from the web interface as far as I know.

Question 1 : How to list all the files already uploaded using the project/:id/uploads API ?

FYI, this is the command that was used :

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <my-private-token>" --form "file=@<my-file-name>" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<project-id>/uploads"

Question 2 : How to delete the files uploaded using the project/:id/uploads API ?

I found the following page, but it doesn’t mention how to do it on gitlab.com , I’m not sure how to overcome this ?

Uploads administration | GitLab (only explains how to do it for gitlab on-prem)

Question 3 : would you know any workaround Q1 & Q2 ?

Thanks in advance for your help !

Some leads I found trying to figure how it’s been implemented in gitlab since it’s not part of git, but it doesn’t help me to delete those files.

Uploads development documentation

• Uploads development guidelines | GitLab

" GitLab Workhorse has special rules for handling uploads. To prevent occupying a Ruby process on I/O operations, we process the upload in workhorse, where is cheaper. This process can also directly upload to object storage."`

• => using GitLab.org / gitlab-workhorse · GitLab => workhorse · master · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab

  "GitLab Workhorse is a smart reverse proxy for GitLab. It handles
  “large” HTTP requests such as file downloads, file uploads, Git
  push/pull and Git archive downloads."

  • Files · master · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab

    File uploads and downloads may be slow either because the file is
    large or because the user’s connection is slow. Workhorse can handle
    the slow part for Rails. This improves the efficiency of features such
    as CI artifacts, package repositories, LFS objects, etc.

Uploads administration [all tiers self-managed]

• Uploads administration | GitLab

Other sources of info:

• https://ops.gitlab.net/gitlab-com/runbooks/-/blob/729b94de2e5bf7b831f140112cd622cac9a3fa22/docs/uncategorized/uploads.md

For now the features have not been developed :

• Q1 (list all the files uploaded) → API list all files on a project (#197361) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab
• Q2 (delete the files uploaded) → Add a method to the project API to remove an uploaded file (#26075) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab