Working with large unity projects and Git

[cerulean hawk]

So my current project is not particularly large (only 5GB) but it already does not satisfy GitHub's requirements. What setup would be optimal to use, assuming we expect a maximum project size of ~10GB?

[pallid coral]

So my current project is not particularly large (only 5GB) does that includes library & packageCache?

maybe try use gitLab or use your own git server

but it already does not satisfy GitHub's requirements
What do you mean by this?

[cerulean hawk]

too big, need to use LFS

[cerulean hawk]

we do have gitlab but we are moving soon and it will be disruptive

[steel crescent]

Have you considered paying github?

[cerulean hawk]

Its 19.99 a month, we just hit the 5GB breakpoint

Its not like we dont have the infrastructure for a private gitlab

We just dont have the stability cuz we are moving soon and our intranet will need to move too

[pallid coral]

what about self host?

you can buy a rasperry pi & install gitlab or gittea

[pallid coral]

gitlab has larger breakpoint, no?

[cerulean hawk]

I have no idea honestly, my friend is the one who setup a personal gitlab- but the thing is that we will be moving for the entire month of december + Jan, so the gitlab (which exists on bare metal) will be inaccessible. That would mean 2 months of lost development if we were to rely on it

[cerulean hawk]

would this have sufficient memory (RAM) and storage (SSD) for a project that would run between 5GB-10GB?

[pallid coral]

but the thing is that we will be moving for the entire month of december + Jan, so the gitlab (which exists on bare metal) will be inaccessible
Why is that?

https://forum.gitlab.com/t/is-there-a-size-limit-to-your-repositorys/41275

[pallid coral]

why not, I think raspberry pi can use sd card or flash drive

which is cheap

[worn mirage]

if your project just broke 5GB, you should still be able to have it on Github, only files of a large size (50MB i think) need ya to use Git LFS

as well, you probs wanna set up some ignore rules for some bigger assets that you would never need to change or revert back on

[cerulean hawk]

because it will literally be moving? it can only connect to intranet

[pallid coral]

Where did you read that?

[velvet gorge]

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. As far as I know, there is no file size limit for the project on your repository, as long as you use Git LFS

[normal flicker]

We use self hosted gitlab. You can pickup a VPS for quite cheap. We have 400+ repositories on ours, about 100 of which are over 10GB. And we pay 10/month.

That aside, gitlab used to have a 10GB limit per repo (might be 5 now) on their cloud service for the free tier, so double check that as an option as well.

It'll take a day or so to setup though, and you'll want to follow the automatic backup instructions.

[quaint sparrow]

Not sure where you are getting this price from but if all you want is more LFS storage then you can buy data packs in 50GiB increments, $5 per month. https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-git-large-file-storage/upgrading-git-large-file-storage

[tough scaffold]

the easy way is to install gitstack on a windows box and buy fork