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It’s a pretty simple question, say that I wanna upload a lot of files to a Git local repo and then push it to a remote one on GitHub. I want to use the github desktop app, the upload might take a while so before trying to do anything I wanted to know: is there a limit for the size you commit to the local repository and the one you push to the remote one?

So maybe if the limit is too small for me I wont lose time waiting for it to upload.

alexpro_23
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GitHub Desktop itself does not hold any included limit as far as I can tell.
It basically is just a front-end client for Git and GitHub itself.

GitHub however does have file limits:

  • Individual files have a size limit of 100mb each.
  • Repositories do not have file size limits, but they a recommended to be under 1GB and definitely under 5GB.
  • 1 push cannot contain more than 2GB worth of data
  • GitHub Desktop may warn you if your repository reaches a certain point, as the Git CLI warns you in the terminal if your repository exceeds 75GB

For more detail explanation, see this answer

If you have large files which do need versioning in GitHub, maybe look into GitHub Large File Storage

Dan P
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