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> _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
