Update Sept. 2021, on the radmap (not yet delivered):
"Git LFS moves to metered billing"
LFS billing will switch from prepaid data packs to metered (pay for what you use).
The free entitlements (for example, 1GB storage and 1GB bandwidth) will be unchanged.
Customers will not be billed for LFS storage that occurred prior to the start of metering.
Intended Outcome
This change brings LFS billing in line with how Packages and Actions bill.
Instead of prepaying for a quota, you'll only be charged for what your repositories use.How will it work?
We'll calculate how much storage is used and measure how much outbound bandwidth is used.
Each month, you'll be charged per-unit for each of these resources.
Original answer: Dec. 20219:
"About storage and bandwidth usage" from GitHub does mention:
When you download a file tracked with Git LFS, the total file size is counted against the repository owner's bandwidth limit.
Git LFS uploads do not count against the bandwidth limit.
So you can not remove or reset a bandwidth: it is already taken by your past downloads.
For example:
- If you push a 500 MB file to Git LFS, you'll use 500 MB of your allotted storage and none of your bandwidth. If you make a 1 byte change and push the file again, you'll use another 500 MB of storage and no bandwidth, bringing your total usage for these two pushes to 1 GB of storage and zero bandwidth.
- If you download a 500 MB file that's tracked with LFS, you'll use 500 MB of the repository owner's allotted bandwidth. If a collaborator pushes a change to the file and you pull the new version to your local repository, you'll use another 500 MB of bandwidth, bringing the total usage for these two downloads to 1 GB of bandwidth.
Plus:
Forking and pulling a repository counts against the parent repository's bandwidth limit.
So if your repository was forked, you don't even have to do anything for your bandwidth to be used.
Answer from VonC on Stack OverflowUpdate Sept. 2021, on the radmap (not yet delivered):
"Git LFS moves to metered billing"
LFS billing will switch from prepaid data packs to metered (pay for what you use).
The free entitlements (for example, 1GB storage and 1GB bandwidth) will be unchanged.
Customers will not be billed for LFS storage that occurred prior to the start of metering.
Intended Outcome
This change brings LFS billing in line with how Packages and Actions bill.
Instead of prepaying for a quota, you'll only be charged for what your repositories use.How will it work?
We'll calculate how much storage is used and measure how much outbound bandwidth is used.
Each month, you'll be charged per-unit for each of these resources.
Original answer: Dec. 20219:
"About storage and bandwidth usage" from GitHub does mention:
When you download a file tracked with Git LFS, the total file size is counted against the repository owner's bandwidth limit.
Git LFS uploads do not count against the bandwidth limit.
So you can not remove or reset a bandwidth: it is already taken by your past downloads.
For example:
- If you push a 500 MB file to Git LFS, you'll use 500 MB of your allotted storage and none of your bandwidth. If you make a 1 byte change and push the file again, you'll use another 500 MB of storage and no bandwidth, bringing your total usage for these two pushes to 1 GB of storage and zero bandwidth.
- If you download a 500 MB file that's tracked with LFS, you'll use 500 MB of the repository owner's allotted bandwidth. If a collaborator pushes a change to the file and you pull the new version to your local repository, you'll use another 500 MB of bandwidth, bringing the total usage for these two downloads to 1 GB of bandwidth.
Plus:
Forking and pulling a repository counts against the parent repository's bandwidth limit.
So if your repository was forked, you don't even have to do anything for your bandwidth to be used.
find another email, commit after you are absolutely sure it is your final version.
Git lfs bandwidth limit when public repo is cloned
Is there really no limit on GitHub Release bandwidth usage?
What does "bandwidth of 100GB per month mean" and what does "10 build per hour mean"?
Github pages site size limits? - Stack Overflow
I created a data service (FOSS) on GitHub that pulls the latest data from various sources and updates the records stored in GitHub. It’s scheduled to run several times a day thanks to GitHub Actions. These records are distributed via GitHub Release, and my users can download them with a client. I’m essentially hosting the entire app on GitHub for free, from computing to data hosting. Although currently the download is less than a GB of data every day, in the future, with more users and more data sources, it "could" be terabytes. Albeit no bandwidth limit according to GitHub Release, I’m still worried that it all seems too good to be true.
I am planning to start a mathematics blog hosted on Github Pages. Can someone please explain the following lines mentioned on Github website? What does bandwidth of 100GB per month mean and what does build per hour mean?
GitHub Pages sites have a soft bandwidth limit of 100GB per month.
GitHub Pages sites have a soft limit of 10 builds per hour.
Thanks for reading.
GitHub now has new policies of a 1GB filesize repository, warnings for pushes of files over 50 MB and complete rejection for fileuploads of 100MB. GitHub warns you when you push a file larger than 50 MB.
https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota/
Related is bandwidth usage (amount of data transferred). There is a limit but it isn't documented. Taken from the GitHub Terms of Service:
If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by GitHub) of other GitHub customers, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.