New File Size Limits
Starting today, you will see warnings if you push large files to your GitHub repository. Git is not well suited to large binary files, and we have some recommendations about…
Starting today, you will see warnings if you push large files to your GitHub repository. Git is not well suited to large binary files, and we have some recommendations about better ways to handle them.
We will also reject pushes which add or modify files that are larger than our generous hard limit.
Please see the Help article for more details, including Git’s technical limitations, and the specific limits.
Written by
Related posts
GitHub availability report: March 2026
In March, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub Universe is back: We want you to take the stage
Get inspired by five of the most memorable, magical, and quirky Universe sessions to date.
What’s coming to our GitHub Actions 2026 security roadmap
A look at GitHub Actions’ 2026 roadmap, outlining how secure defaults, policy controls, and CI/CD observability harden the software supply chain end to end.