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

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: May 8, 2015, 21:55 UTC
Message-ID: <682DB2BD13D143CEB606BF9C8E4E55D5@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <20150508065459.GB31516@vps892.directvps.nl>

From: "Kevin Daudt" <me@ikke.info>

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> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 02:31:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 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.
> --

I'd also support this option.

One issue is to locate a suitable method/character code for the 'magic pathspec' that would define a size limit that can be used for the 'git add .' etc., and possibly also for sparse checkout (definitely an area where a size limit may be appropriate for some users).

The ability to extend the ignore method could also, in the future be used for a possible narrow clone (when desired). -- Philip