It depends on your tooling I just searched for the largest code files on my system and found a 100k file I opened it on the online repo and gitlab did not wan

It depends on your tooling I just searched for the largest code files on my system and found a 100k file I opened it on the online repo and gitlab did not want to show it at first. When I clicked on show anyways, Firefox broke trying to load the website and I had to restart it. (then I could not post on HN anymore due to the noprocrast setting there) When I opened that file in an IDE, it was shown quickly without any issues. But there is a notable delay when typing, so 100k lines are too much. Other IDEs might already fail with smaller files Although when the IDE has a "search in the open file" and not a "search in all files of the project" feature, one file is much easier to use than multiple files