Checking your gits < GitHub Limit

Garratt Campton

14d (edited) • Lessons

**EDIT:** Seems the old 500mb total was an old limitation which no longer applies. Copilot says this:

Short answer: there is no “500 MB total across all repos” meter in GitHub settings for normal Git repos.

The 500 MB number is usually confusion with "old guidance/soft limits".
GitHub repo limits are mostly per-repo guidance (not one total account cap for all repos).
What is metered in billing: Git LFS, Actions artifact storage/minutes, packages, etc.

Useful links:

Billing usage (personal): https://github.com/settings/billing/summary
Repo size guidance/limits: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-large-files/about-large-files-on-github

But rather than deleting this post I figured I'll leave it here for future reference.

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So while GitHub is essentially free, if you've been using it for a number of years, you might want to know how close to the limit you are. Yes there is limits. 500mb to be exact. I was wondering considering how much I've been using it over the last couple years if I was about to go over that limit. But there's nothing in GitHub settings, I searched for ages... Time for a bash command.

So I know I have 2 personal folders I use for my repos. 1_myprojects and 2_myskills. so I just need to recursively count each (I don't run mono repo)

The following command will also work for mono repo. Just run it in the folder above your monorepo.

```bash

find . -name ".git" -type d -exec du -ch {} + | grep total$

```

```powershell

(Get-ChildItem -Path . -Filter .git -Recurse -Hidden | Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum).Sum / 1MB

```

My total comes to 311mb. I think, that powershell command output is a little funky.

EDIT:- THIS IS THE BEST COMMAND TO RUN:

**Total**

```

gh repo list "$(gh api user -q .login)" --limit 1000 --json diskUsage --jq '[.[].diskUsage] | add as $kb | "Total: \($kb) KB | \($kb/1024) MB | \($kb/1024/1024) GB"'

```

**Private Repo's Count**

```

gh repo list "$(gh api user -q .login)" --visibility private --limit 1000 --json diskUsage --jq '[.[].diskUsage] | add as $kb | "Private total: \($kb) KB | \($kb/1024) MB | \($kb/1024/1024) GB"'

```

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