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Git push fails for large number of commits

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Github remote push pack size exceeded

Failure message:

Pushing efb55fab0352e4fff42129d00b642e908e9d09c1...
Counting objects: 617706, done.
Delta compression using up to 6 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (368204/368204), done.
Writing objects:  36% (222375/617706), 1.79 GiB | 278.60 MiB/s     

remote: fatal: pack exceeds maximum allowed size
error: RPC failed; curl 55 Failed sending data to the peer
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Writing objects: 100% (617706/617706), 4.37 GiB | 185.36 MiB/s, done.
Total 617706 (delta 218614), reused 617467 (delta 218375)
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Everything up-to-date
Counting objects: 617709, done.
Delta compression using up to 6 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (368206/368206), done.
Writing objects:  36% (222376/617709), 1.83 GiB | 392.11 MiB/s

Context:

  1. Working on a fork of kiwi (https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src)

  2. Created a script from answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/51468389/1079483

  3. Added token to url for convenience:

    $ git remote set-url origin https://:@github.com/path/to/repo.git

  4. Ran push; after a few hours the above error was thrown?

Solution

  • On GitHub.com the size limit is 100MB https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-large-files/working-with-large-files/conditions-for-large-files

    If you have Github Enterprise Server you can change the size limit if you have the permissions to do so. https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.1/github/managing-large-files/working-with-large-files/conditions-for-large-files

    If some of these files are binary files, you could use Git LFS?