Github file size limit changed 6/18/13. Can't push now

Question

How does this change as of June 18, 2013 affect my existing repository with a file that exceeds that limit? I last pushed 2 months ago with a large file.

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Answer 1

The actual limit for each file on GitHub is 100 MiB, not 100 MB.

Demo: https://github.com/Franck-Dernoncourt/github-max-file-size

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https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota/ (mirror) erroneously claims that they place a strict limit of files exceeding 100 MB in size

The confusion between MB and MiB can be seen when pushing: in the example below, the error message from GitHub server indicates the file is 101 MB whereas git correctly indicates it is 101 MiB:

~\Documents\GitHub\test123 [master ↑1 +3 ~0 -0 !]> git push
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 101.03 MiB | 896.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local objects.
remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File S
torage - https://git-lfs.github.com.
remote: error: Trace: e9206a9cd05c4ff5de79bba9d4caf9df
remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information.
remote: error: File 101MB is 101.00 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of
 100.00 MB
To https://github.com/Franck-Dernoncourt/test123.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/Franck-Dernoncourt/test12
3.git'
~\Documents\GitHub\test123 [master ↑1 +3 ~0 -0 !]>