[Git] Cannot create project: The changes are too large.

[danieltomasz]

Description

I just started a subscription of Typst Pro, I try to clone github repository with the article I am working on, but I keep getting this info Cannot create project: The changes are too large. the repository is ~50mb with mostly markdown files (before I migrated to typst) and some other files I am using for this project.

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[danieltomasz]

Repo is private, I can provide access to someone trying to reporoduce; might it be related to really big bib file?

[laurmaedje]

The current limit for Git repository size that can be synced is quite low (10MB). We can definitely raise the limit, but I can't yet say by how much. We'll look into that.

[danieltomasz]

@laurmaedje thanks for the info! I was thinking about moving my full phd thesis to typst (as it offering great web app and possibility for others for comments) but with current repo size limitations I will stay with pandoc, markdown and github;

though I will still continue to test typst within this one project without git/with manual sync with external git repository (a few big figures in paper might exhaust the 10 mb limit)

[laurmaedje]

Yeah, we're aware that the limit as it is now is quick to exhaust. As the feature is still new and experimental, we're a bit cautious and observing how it behaves in production before allowing larger repositories.

[danieltomasz]

@laurmaedje would you allow to git clone --depth 1 to add only recent version?

[danieltomasz]

Do you have now or plan in the future any beta program for testing?

[laurmaedje]

We have increased the repository size limit to 100MB.

However, our backend needs to clone the full repository to be able to perform the diffing necessary to coalesce local and remote changes. With larger repositories, push and pull time can thus be slow.

[danieltomasz]

thanks, this is really useful and set the reasonable limit!