Re: .gitignore for large files?

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2011, 02:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C=ks1_TdQdNi4Wq8OCSAON9rhJ88zAp1kDZy3fBg2pmQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <B27BF8C0758741A68E1631A7308E17C6@PhilipOakley>

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:

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> 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