- https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/44515 (regarding cloning of arbitrary repositories (one client, many repos))
Received the answer from the Github support team on this:
"Git operations do not consume part of your API rate limit, as there are no API calls made to GitHub.com via the git client.
We don't have any hard limits for clones, though we may delay requests if they come in fast enough to potentially cause overload on one of our servers (this would be determined by the amount of load being placed on our servers at the time of the clones, and would have to exceptionally high to occur). So while Git operations do have dynamic limits, this might result in slower clones, but shouldn't cause any failures.
In terms of API requests: unauthenticated ones are typically limited to ~5000/hr per IP address, 5000/hr per authenticated user, and significantly lower for anonymous requests (typically ~100/hr or less)."