This configures the maximum combined size of annexed files that can be stored in a repository. When run
with a repository but without a size, it displays the currently configured maxsize. When run without any
parameters, it displays an overview of the size and maxsize of all repositories.
The repository can be specified by git remote name or by uuid. For the current repository, use "here".
The size can be specified using any units. For example "100 gigabytes" or "0.8TB"
This is advisory only, it does not prevent git-annex from trying to store more data in a repository. When
a repository has a preferred content expression configured using "balanced" or "sizebalanced", it will
take the maxsize into account when checking preferred content. It is still possible for the maxsize to be
exceeded, eg when there are multiple writers to the same repository.
A hard repository size limit has to be enforced in some other way, eg by putting the repository on a
partition of the desired size. This command can then be used to tell git-annex about that size limit.
For example, if a git repository is on a 1 terabyte drive, and is the only thing stored on that drive,
and annex.diskreserve is configured to 1 gigabyte, then it would make sense to run git-annexmaxsizehere"999gigabytes"
To stop checking maximum size of a repository, set the maxsize to 0.