From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:00:48 GMT
Subject: .gitignore for large files?
Message-ID: <B27BF8C0758741A68E1631A7308E17C6@PhilipOakley>

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.

Perhaps a simple '>' and '<' option (the latter to cover null or minimal 
files?) with a --warn postfix may be possible. Just an initial thought.

Where would the 'right place' be for me to look at the git code if it was 
beneficial.

Philip Oakley
(UK: Scotland)