Larger heavily contributed to repositories can be quite large, even if they are just plain code. Sure, not quite 5 GB large, but still. Linux: $ git clone h

Larger heavily contributed to repositories can be quite large, even if they are just plain code. Sure, not quite 5 GB large, but still. Linux: $ git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git $ du -h linux/.git ... 2.8G linux/.git Git: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git $ du -h git/.git ... 120M git/.git DefinitelyTyped: $ git clone https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped $ du -h DefinitelyTyped/.git 850M DefinitelyTyped/.git home-assistant/core: $ git clone https://github.com/home-assistant/core $ du -h DefinitelyTyped/.git 380M core/.git The above is also only taking into account repo size, while the GitLab limit applies to everything including release artifacts, CI build artifacts, hosted containers, etc. Many of which GitLab currently provides poor or sometimes even zero support for implementing purging.