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by NovemberWhiskey 1418 days ago
I'm reading that as a "stop-the-bleeding" number; presumably there is someone out there with a 44TB repository and they want to impose initial quotas that don't actually impact anyone immediately.

I guess someone has been backing up their movie collections to Gitlab or something.
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bluedino 1418 days ago
One case I've seen on our local Gitlab server is someone in data science/HPC (accidentally?) adding the output of a solver to their repo. Easily hundreds or thousands of gigabytes of data.
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hinkley 1418 days ago
I had to learn svn surgery because someone imported a 1GB archive to test the ol' signed 32 bit file size bug, got yelled at, and deleted it. Well, except it's still in the repository, mate, it's just hidden.

I replaced it with a fixture that was 2GB of space characters, which compressed down to about 3KB. I know there's a canonical file bomb zip file that's under 1K but there's clever and then there's clever.

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