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authorRussell Dickenson <rdickenson@gitlab.com>2019-05-21 05:05:04 +0000
committerRussell Dickenson <rdickenson@gitlab.com>2019-05-27 10:49:36 +1000
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+---
+type: reference
+---
+
# 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. -->