diff --git a/platform/distribution-content/src/com/intellij/platform/distributionContent/testFramework/Serialization.kt b/platform/distribution-content/src/com/intellij/platform/distributionContent/testFramework/Serialization.kt
index 80fb6ae131e9..90c97d227800 100644
--- a/platform/distribution-content/src/com/intellij/platform/distributionContent/testFramework/Serialization.kt
+++ b/platform/distribution-content/src/com/intellij/platform/distributionContent/testFramework/Serialization.kt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ private val yaml = Yaml(
   configuration = YamlConfiguration(
     encodeDefaults = false,
     singleLineStringStyle = SingleLineStringStyle.PlainExceptAmbiguous,
+    codePointLimit = 10 * 1024 * 1024, // 10 MiB, slightly lower than the max file size in our Git repo (12 MiB)
   ),
 )