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+# Account and limit settings
+
+## Repository size limit **[STARTER]**
+
+> [Introduced][ee-740] in [GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.12][ee-8.12].
+
+Repositories within your GitLab instance can grow quickly, especially if you are
+using LFS. Their size can grow exponentially and eat up your storage device quite
+fast.
+
+In order to avoid this from happening, you can set a hard limit for your
+repositories' size. This limit can be set globally, per group, or per project,
+with per project limits taking the highest priority.
+
+There are numerous cases where you'll need to set up a limit for repository size.
+For instance, consider the following workflow:
+
+1. Your team develops apps which demand large files to be stored in
+   the application repository.
+1. Although you have enabled [Git LFS](../../../workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.html#git-lfs)
+   to your project, your storage has grown significantly.
+1. Before you blow your storage limit up, you set up a limit of 10 GB
+   per repository.
+
+### How it works
+
+Only a GitLab administrator can set those limits. Setting the limit to `0` means
+there are no restrictions.
+
+These settings can be found within:
+
+- Each project's settings.
+- A group's settings.
+- The **Size limit per repository (MB)** field in the **Account and limit** section of a GitLab instance's
+  settings by navigating to either:
+  - **Admin Area > Settings > General**.
+  - The path `/admin/application_settings`.
+
+The very first push of a new project cannot be checked for size as of now, so
+the first push will allow you to upload more than the limit dictates, but every
+subsequent push will be denied. LFS objects, however, can be checked on first
+push and **will** be rejected if the sum of their sizes exceeds the maximum
+allowed repository size.
+
+For more manually purging the files, read the docs on
+[reducing the repository size using Git][repo-size].
+
+> **Note:**
+> For GitLab.com, the repository size limit is 10 GB.
+
+[ee-740]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/740
+[repo-size]: ../../project/repository/reducing_the_repo_size_using_git.md
+[ee-8.12]: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/22/gitlab-8-12-released/#limit-project-size-ee