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 Staged-size-checker is a tool designed to prevent commits with files that exceed size limitations. It can be set up as a pre-commit hook in a git repository to enforce size constraints on both individual files and the total size of all staged files.
 
+## Background and Scope
+
+Github has a couple limitations around pushing files into remote repositories. 
+If a file is larger than 100MiB, it will be rejected. 
+
+If the total size of the **push** is greater than 2GB, it will be rejected. 
+This tool is designed to help prevent these issues by checking the size of files 
+in the staging area before a commit is made.
+
+The ability to guesstimate the size of a push is a bit trickier. You must understand
+what blobs do not exist on the remote repository, and also take into account the fact
+that git will perform compression. This tool will not be able to accurately predict
+the size of a push, so simplifies the situation to address the fact that in most
+cases a data scientist should potentially seek alternative storage strategies if they are checking
+in more than a couple hundred megabytes of content in a given commit. This is well
+below the threshold, but can help be a preliminary check that the person committing
+would have to take explicit action (if used as a precommit hook) to acknowledge the
+size of the content they are committing.
+
+We have found that there are many situations where the person is not even aware of the
+total size/contents they are committing, for example, when a new folder is created `git status`
+just shows the folder and not all the files inside. Situations where people have thought
+they git ignored large files or batches of files and did not were not clearly shown
+in the status output.
+
 ## Installation
 
-To install the latest version, see the [Release](https://github.com/a2-ai-tech-training/staged-size-checker/releases/tag/v0.1.0) page.
+To install the latest version, see the [Releases](https://github.com/a2-ai/staged-size-checker/releases/) page.
 
 ### Triggering automatically
+
 If you want to automatically check file sizes before each commit using [Lefthook](https://github.com/evilmartians/lefthook), create a `lefthook.yaml` with the following contents:
 
 ```yaml
@@ -16,25 +42,18 @@ pre-commit:
       run: staged-size-checker
 ```
 
-
-<!-- ```shell
-cargo install staged-size-checker
-``` -->
-
 ## Usage
 
 ```shell
-❯ staged-size-checker --help
-Usage: staged-size-checker [OPTIONS] [COMMIT_HASH]
-
-Arguments:
-  [COMMIT_HASH]  Optional commit hash to compare against
+Usage: staged-size-checker [OPTIONS]
 
 Options:
   -f, --file-tolerance <FILE_TOLERANCE>
-          Set individual file size tolerance, default is 100 MB [default: "100 MB"]
+          Set individual file size tolerance, default is 100 MiB [default: "100 MiB"]
   -s, --staged-tolerance <STAGED_TOLERANCE>
-          Set commit size tolerance, default is 500 MB [default: "500 MB"]
+          Set commit size tolerance, default is 250 MiB [default: "250 MiB"]
+  -v, --verbose
+          Verbose output
   -h, --help
           Print help
   -V, --version
@@ -43,17 +62,14 @@ Options:
 
 ### Exit status
 
-`0`: Success. All file sizes are within the specified tolerances.
+Different exit codes can allow other programs to respond differently without parsing error messages:
 
-`1`: Failure. One or more files exceed the specified size limits.
-
-
-## Contributing
-
-To build,
-```shell
-just build
-```
+- `0`: Success. All file sizes are within the specified tolerances.
+- `100`: Failure. One or more files exceed the specified size limits.
+- `101`: Failure. Total staged size exceeds the specified limits and has large files. When large files are removed, the total staged size will still be over
+the specified limit 
+- `102`: Total staged size exceeds the specified limits and has large files. When large files are removed, the total staged size will be within the specified limits.
+- `103`: Failure. The aggregate size of the commit exceeds the total threshold.
 
 ## See also