Max Size Per Repo?

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Just trying to weigh up my options for git hosting. Been using bitbucket and gitlab on and off like a distro hopper.
What I need to know is the max repo size for a free user + LFS storage. I am intending to use it for Unreal Engine projects.

I asked pretty much the same question over at BitBucket and I was told “In Bitbucket Cloud you have a limitation of 2GB per repo. If you enable LFS, you’ll get 1GB for your LFS files for free”

So how does Gitlab compare to that?

EDIT: According to this page… The max repo size on Gitlab.com is 10GB. Does that include LFS?

Cheers all!

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I’d like to know this too as I have an Android open source build I want to host on here. It’s around 5GB and almost 400,000 files.

I tried to git commit it but I get an error which leads me to believe there are too many files.

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If you’re talking about the hosted solution, then yes, it’s 10 GB for repository, artifacts and LFS.

There is however an open issue with a feature proposal for users to purchase more storage: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/47303

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Hi Cynthia,

I would also like to know about on premise hosted community edition’s Gitlab instance.
What should be Max. Size limit for a project like can it be 15GB or more. Does it create issues while restoring whole gitlab instances backup with “gitlab-backup restore” command.

Waiting for your valuable help & recommendations here.

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For a self-managed instance, you can set it to whatever you want. If you’re worried about how large projects get, you can get a global limit then override it for individual projects.

In terms of backup and restore, that mostly depends on your infrastructure set up. There is no specific guideline. I can tell you that we have do users who run GitLab with very large 100+GB projects, but I believe most of these are on high availability (HA) setups.

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Thanks for quick response Cynthia. But here I was talking about community edition which don’t have global/individual project limit, so is there any alternate way. One more thing what do you mean by “infrastructure set up”. We have approx. 90+GB of backup dump. when we try to restore it on new instance with same version/edition, largest projects i.e. 10+GBs are not getting restored.

Thanks in Advance.

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Sorry for the late reply. If you haven’t already, I suggest starting a new thread with details on your issue as backups are unrelated to the original question on the project repository limits.