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Veracity unconfirmed, but this article asserts that until they did some cleanup they were storing 19 petabytes.

https://newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-github-reduced-repo...

maybe sourced from this tweet?

https://x.com/github/status/1569852682239623173

Edit: though maybe that data doesn't count as your "just text" data.

yeah i assume all the artifacts[0] and binaries greatly inflate that. I have no idea how git works under the hood as it is implemented at github, so i can't comment on potential reasons there.

Is there some command a git administrator can issue to see granular statistics, or is "du -sh" the best we can get?

0: i'm assuming a site-rip that only fetches the equivalent files to when you click the "zip download" button, not the releases, not the wikis, images, workers, gists, etc.

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