On Monday 18 February 2013 16:53:57 David White wrote:
> The thing is that github doesn't have a "hard" limit on size either. See
> https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota -- they simply claim
> that performance may start to deteriorate after your repository is larger
> than 1GB.
>
> [...]
> 
> Is the limitation perhaps more related to the scalability of git itself
> rather than a limitation github adds?

Mordante's concern is about a particular point mentioned in the article you 
linked:

> If your repository exceeds 1GB, you might receive a polite email from
> support requesting that you reduce the size of the repository to bring it
> back down under 1GB.

I know for one that Git repositories over 1 GiB can be very stressing for my 
laptop's HDD to handle when the relevant object files aren't cached in memory, 
but GitHub's reasoning is probably more related to network bandwidth:

> Keeping repos small ensures that our servers are fast and downloads are
> quick for our users.

-- 
Regards
  Ignacio Riquelme Morelle <shadowmaster>

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