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Re: Please consider extending .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit

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Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date
May 8, 2015, 06:54 UTC
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On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 02:31:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Roger Mendes <sproger1@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Having said all that, why is it that you do not want to track
> certain files that happen to be large?  Don't the existing large
> file support facility work for you (or perhaps you are not using
> them)?  It might be that your time is better spent on improving
> that, instead of working around the issue, no?
>

My experience in #git is that people want to prevent other people accidentelly adding large files, resulting in all sorts of problems, which takes a lot of effort to fix if you're not an experienced user.

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Message 4 of 7 in “Please consider extending .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit”
  1. Roger MendesMay 7, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2015
  3. Thomas KochMay 8, 2015
  4. Kevin DaudtMay 8, 2015
  5. Fredrik GustafssonMay 8, 2015
  6. Stefan BellerMay 8, 2015
  7. Philip OakleyMay 8, 2015

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