Limiting file size in git repository

Question

I\'m currently thinking of changing my VCS (from subversion) to git. Is it possible to limit the file size within a commit in a git repository? For e. g. subversion there is

Answer 1

I want to highlight another set of approaches that address this issue at the pull request stage: GitHub Actions and Apps. It doesn't stop large files from being committed into a branch, but if they're removed prior to the merge then the resulting base branch will not have the large files in history.

There's a recently developed action that checks the added file sizes (through the GitHub API) against a user-defined reference value: lfs-warning.

I've also personally hacked together a Probot app to screen for large file sizes in a PR (against a user-defined value), but it's much less efficient: sizeCheck