> We recommend **not** putting your data in your repo at all.
Yes, this breaks true reproducability but there are reasons:
* we often use data that is commercial or sensitive or personal (under GDPR) - so we cannot risk that leaking out
* we often use data that is commercial or sensitive or personal (under GDPR) - so we cannot risk that leaking out via git.soton, github.com or gitlab.com
* we often use _very large_ datasets which most git/hub/lab services sensibly reject
* we often pull real time data on the fly from elsewhere so storage makes no sense
