Where to Store Large Files for GitHub Repos: LFS, R2, S3 and iCloud

I have 100+ GitHub repos and pay $5/month for GitHub Pro. Worth it. GitHub allows 100,000 repos per account, with a recommended maximum of 10 GB for each repo’s .git folder. Multiply those figures and you get 1 PB on paper, alongside my $5/month bill. But large repos still make clones slower. I’d keep code and ordinary images together, and put videos and other large files that don’t need code versioning elsewhere. An agent should download those only when a task needs them. When to use Git LFS GitHub recommends keeping repos below 1 GB ideally, and strongly recommends below 5 GB. For large assets that need versioning alongside code, Git LFS keeps a pointer in Git and stores the file separately. Free and Pro include 10 GiB of LFS storage and 10 GiB of monthly download bandwidth, shared across all your repos. Ordinary images committed directly to Git don’t use this allowance. Overages cost $0.07/GiB-month for storage and $0.0875/GiB downloaded, in USD. Each new version uses the full file…

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