can't clone the repository due to git LFS budget

[nlsdvl]

It seems the issue comes from the current upstream repo's account, as reported here : atteneder#771 (comment)

[atteneder]

Hi,

do you have any problem cloning from this fork/repository?

git clone git@github.com:Unity-Technologies/com.unity.cloud.gltfast.git

[nlsdvl]

yes, indeed :

Cloning into 'com.unity.cloud.gltfast'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 16293, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4844/4844), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (560/560), done.
remote: Total 16293 (delta 4514), reused 4284 (delta 4284), pack-reused 11449 (from 2)
Receiving objects: 100% (16293/16293), 4.42 MiB | 7.81 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12842/12842), done.
Updating files: 100% (2072/2072), done.
Downloading Packages/com.unity.cloud.gltfast.tests/Assets~/Khronos/AnimatedMorphCube/glTF-Quantized/AnimatedMorphCube.bin (1.7 KB)
Error downloading object: Packages/com.unity.cloud.gltfast.tests/Assets~/Khronos/AnimatedMorphCube/glTF-Quantized/AnimatedMorphCube.bin (bde22d0): Smudge error: Error downloading Packages/com.unity.cloud.gltfast.tests/Assets~/Khronos/AnimatedMorphCube/glTF-Quantized/AnimatedMorphCube.bin (bde22d01f34dd8f5d83cfbb20a1a6d117ec48596157df5d484a58eba13cdff51): batch response: This repository exceeded its LFS budget. The account responsible for the budget should increase it to restore access.

Errors logged to '/Users/ndvx/code/5gmag/com.unity.cloud.gltfast/.git/lfs/logs/20250514T151349.973011.log'.
Use `git lfs logs last` to view the log.
error: external filter 'git-lfs filter-process' failed
fatal: Packages/com.unity.cloud.gltfast.tests/Assets~/Khronos/AnimatedMorphCube/glTF-Quantized/AnimatedMorphCube.bin: smudge filter lfs failed
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

I opened a formal ticket on github support for clarification. See the note on forks here : https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your-products/managing-billing-for-git-large-file-storage/about-billing-for-git-large-file-storage#about-billing-for-git-large-file-storage

[nlsdvl]

We do have LFS budget allocated to our fork repo, but that doesn't seem to help.

[atteneder]

I used to pay on a monthly basis for Git LFS packages on Github for my private account. I just noticed the billing changed. While I don't think this error involves my private account, maybe billing changed for the Unity org as well and that's the problem? I'll have to investigate.

[atteneder]

It seems like the Git LFS traffic is indeed billed at the root repository, which is my personal account. I setup a reasonable budget for it. Could you please try if it works now?

[nlsdvl]

@atteneder - thanks a lot for handling this promptly. I confirm it resolved it for us. I also wasn't expecting it to be billed on upstream. I guess the only way to not have LFS charged on upstream is to detach the forks, but that's something only the account maintaining the forks are entitled to do.

[jordijoangimenez]

Thanks you both! We had indeed the same issue in the 5G-MAG repos. Somehow the regular bill for May hasn't come and instead we need to setup now budgets