llvm dev - Dec 2019 - git question about disk space

If one has a free github account and clones the llvm-project repo into their 
account, what is the impact on their disk quota?  The llvm-project is huge but 
if one only changes a few files, does all the rest count against their quota or 
is some copy-on-write mechanism sharing the disk space amongst all cloners?

thanks, brian

On 12/19/2019 12:17 PM, Bagel via llvm-dev wrote:
> If one has a free github account and clones the llvm-project repo into
their account, what is the impact on their disk quota?  The llvm-project is huge
but if one only changes a few files, does all the rest count against their quota
or is some copy-on-write mechanism sharing the disk space amongst all cloners?
> 
I don't think GitHub has disk quotas:

https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-large-files/what-is-my-disk-quota

-Tomm
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On 12/19/19 2:22 PM, Tom Stellard wrote:
> On 12/19/2019 12:17 PM, Bagel via llvm-dev wrote:
>> If one has a free github account and clones the llvm-project repo into
their account, what is the impact on their disk quota?  The llvm-project is huge
but if one only changes a few files, does all the rest count against their quota
or is some copy-on-write mechanism sharing the disk space amongst all cloners?
>>
> 
> I don't think GitHub has disk quotas:
> 
>
https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-large-files/what-is-my-disk-quota
> 
> -Tomm
But what about this quote from that page:
--
We recommend repositories be kept under 1GB each. Repositories have a hard 
limit of 100GB. If you reach 75GB you'll receive a warning from Git in your 
terminal when you push. This limit is easy to stay within if large files are 
kept out of the repository. If your repository exceeds 1GB, you might receive a 
polite email from GitHub Support requesting that you reduce the size of the 
repository to bring it back down.

In addition, we place a strict limit of files exceeding 100 MB in size.
--
Perhaps they don't enforce this?  Maybe things are different for non-free
accounts.

brian