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# Account and limit settings
## Repository size limit **[STARTER]**
> [Introduced][ee-740] in [GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.12][ee-8.12].
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/740) in [GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.12](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/22/gitlab-8-12-released/#limit-project-size-ee).
> Available in [GitLab Starter](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/).
Repositories within your GitLab instance can grow quickly, especially if you are
using LFS. Their size can grow exponentially and eat up your storage device quite
fast.
using LFS. Their size can grow exponentially, rapidly consuming available storage.
In order to avoid this from happening, you can set a hard limit for your
repositories' size. This limit can be set globally, per group, or per project,
with per project limits
taking the highest priority.
To avoid this from happening, you can set a hard limit for your repositories' size.
This limit can be set globally, per group, or per project, with per project limits
taking the highest priority.
There are numerous
cases where you'll need to
set up a limit for repository size.
There are numerous
use cases where you might
set up a limit for repository size.
For instance, consider the following workflow:
1.
Your team develops apps which
demand
large files to be stored in
1.
Your team develops apps which
require
large files to be stored in
the application repository.
1.
Although you have enabled
[
Git LFS
](
../../../workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.
html
#git-lfs
)
1.
Although you have enabled
[
Git LFS
](
../../../workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.
md
#git-lfs
)
to your project, your storage has grown significantly.
1.
Before you
blow your storage limit up
, you set up a limit of 10 GB
1.
Before you
exceed available storage
, you set up a limit of 10 GB
per repository.
### How it works
...
...
@@ -42,12 +46,19 @@ subsequent push will be denied. LFS objects, however, can be checked on first
push and
**will**
be rejected if the sum of their sizes exceeds the maximum
allowed repository size.
For more manually purging the files, read the docs on
[
reducing the repository size using Git
][
repo-size
]
.
For details on manually purging files, see
[
reducing the repository size using Git
](
../../project/repository/reducing_the_repo_size_using_git.md
)
.
NOTE:
**Note:**
For GitLab.com, the repository size limit is 10 GB.
<!-- ## Troubleshooting
> **Note:**
> For GitLab.com, the repository size limit is 10 GB.
Include any troubleshooting steps that you can foresee. If you know beforehand what issues
one might have when setting this up, or when something is changed, or on upgrading, it's
important to describe those, too. Think of things that may go wrong and include them here.
This is important to minimize requests for support, and to avoid doc comments with
questions that you know someone might ask.
[
ee-740
]:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/740
[
repo-size
]:
../../project/repository/reducing_the_repo_size_using_git.md
[
ee-8.12
]:
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/22/gitlab-8-12-released/#limit-project-size-ee
Each scenario can be a third-level heading, e.g.
`### Getting error message X`
.
If you have none to add when creating a doc, leave this section in place
but commented out to help encourage others to add to it in the future. -->
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