Re: .gitignore for large files?

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Jul 25, 2011, 06:53 UTC
Message-ID: <179943CA8CCC4BEE811E31B2BCC634D1@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8C=ks1_TdQdNi4Wq8OCSAON9rhJ88zAp1kDZy3fBg2pmQ@mail.gmail.com>

Duy,

The .git attributes is a good call. I'm thinking that it would be a global flag (i.e. is a max file limit in place at all on this repo), and then a set of limits, initially one for 'text' and one for 'binary' (and possibly a third for anything with an ext diff), and probably use a similar attribute format as used for setting diff attributes and its filters to set a per file type limit [if required]

The relevant function names gives me a place to start....

Philip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: .gitignore for large files?

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> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> 
> wrote:
>> Has there been any discussion in the past on a method for ignoring large
>> files via the .gitignore process?
>>
>> It does appear to be a moderately common problem for folk to accidentally
>> commit a large file which bloats their repository and they want rid of 
>> it,
>> which causes history re-writes and such palaver.
>
> Once they are in, they cannot be ignored. Perhaps commit hooks at
> server side is a better place?
>
>> Perhaps a simple '>' and '<' option (the latter to cover null or minimal
>> files?) with a --warn postfix may be possible. Just an initial thought.
>
> Or you can make use of .gitattributes, more flexible syntax.
>
>> Where would the 'right place' be for me to look at the git code if it was
>> beneficial.
>
> In dir.c, add_exlude() does the parsing, excluded_from_list() handles the 
> logic.
> -- 
> Duy
>
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