Ability to load large admin boundaries

[andrewtpham]

We have some countries with admin boundaries with larger files than 100 MB and we would like to add to the repo:

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As of December 2019, the GitHub docs say:

We recommend repositories be kept under 1GB each. Repositories have a hard limit of 100GB. If you reach 75GB you'll receive a warning from Git in your terminal when you push. This limit is easy to stay within if large files are kept out of the repository. If your repository exceeds 1GB, you might receive a polite email from GitHub Support requesting that you reduce the size of the repository to bring it back down.

In addition, we place a strict limit of files exceeding 100 MB in size.

Checking usage
The size of each repo to which you directly (not via a group) have Admin access is shown at https://github.com/settings/repositories.

Bypassing file size limit
The file size limit can however be bypassed using a tool such as Git LFS [help] (credit to jaacko-torus)

Alt hosting for data
As an aside, if the goal is to host relational data, also consider https://www.dolthub.com/ which is like "git for data" and has a free plan for public repos. I have no conflict of interest.