Error when using heroku repo:gc -a appname

[YashRunwal]

When I try to run following command

heroku repo:gc -a indian-notes-classifier

It gives me following error:

The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found

Why is that and how can i solve this?

[Soumi7]

I am having the same error. Did Anyone find a way to resolve the issue?

[AdarshPan]

I am also having the same error . Any Updates? It's urgent!!

[Soumi7]

No! None! The mainterners of this repo havent answered.

[edmorley]

For urgent issues I would recommend opening a support ticket:
https://help.heroku.com/

[AdarshPan]

I have already opened a ticket just now ...let's hope for the best
@edmorley Thanks for the link and the suggestion.

[AdarshPan]

Guys ...... You got any updates??
no update in the ticket yet.....

[parthrangarajan]

Hey, any updates?!

[edmorley]

If you get "404 Not Found" when running heroku repo:gc it means the Git repository for the app does not exist.

This can be the case for:

• apps have never been deployed via git push (for example apps that only use GitHub sync or another deployment method)
• apps where the Git repo was deleted - for example by running heroku repo:reset

Regardless of the reason, the fact that the repo doesn't exist means that there's no need to GC it (GC cleans up an existing repo, but if there is no repo, no cleanup is needed).

Out of curiosity, how are people ending up here? Is there a guide/FAQ saying to heroku repo:gc for troubleshooting? If so, there's likely a better way to fix the underlying issue. For example use heroku repo:reset to just delete the repo and start fresh, or if you want to clear the build cache (eg to solve a build problem or reduce slug size bloat in certain cases), then use this other plugin/command instead:
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-builds#purge-build-cache

[patrik-csak]

I ended up here from How To Reduce a Large Heroku Slug Size (thoughtbot.com) after purging the build cache failed to reduce my slug to under 500M

[nhungL]

@patrik-csak were you able to solve it eventually? I'm having both the slug size issue and 404 not found

[patrik-csak]

@nhungL iirc, i re-architected my project to make it smaller