Limits for repo creation that fall under "acceptable use"

[lukasbach]

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Hello,

I am currently working on an API wrapper for github's git data api, and am considering writing end-to-end tests that would create a few repos (one per test case) each time, run a series of git data calls on them (create trees and blobs, overwrite them and read from them) and finally delete the repos. I would like to run the tests locally to debug and in integration tests in github actions. Each call shouldn't be that big, but I'm not sure how expensive especially the repo creation and deletion are on github's side. The calls should fall within the API quotas.

Is this test plan valid within Github's acceptable use policy, or is this too expensive or regarded as unfair use of Github's services? I looked into Github's acceptable use policies, but didn't find anything specific that would suggest this is acceptable use or not.

Thanks!

[byrneh]

Rather than create and deleting repos many times. You could create branches, run your tests against that branch and then delete the branch on the existing test repos.

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