Why does the size of files shown in gitlab decrease after we fork the repository

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I am new to GitLab, and I am wondering if any data is lost when I forked the repo?

  • file size from orginal repo is 2.2 gb:
    file size from orginal repo is 2.2 gb

  • file size after i fork the repo is 1.3gb
    file size after i fork the repo is 1.3gb

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Either associated released are counted in the Storage size of a repository (and a fork would not copy those releases).
I don't see that criteria in Storage limits though.

Or the first repository is using LFS and those are not available in the fork (issue in progress: 271576, possibly because of git-lfs/git-lfs issue 3835

If not, using GitLab repository cleanup would help removes internal Git references to upload objects, reducing the size of the first repository.

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