From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:52:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?
Message-ID: <xmqq7eywutlt.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170725191347.e2p7goxho2rcemz4@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> As you can see, core.bigfilethreshold is a pretty blunt instrument. It
> might be nice if .gitattributes understood other types of patterns
> besides filenames, so you could do something like:
>
>   echo '[size > 500MB] delta -diff' >.gitattributes
>
> or something like that. I don't think it's come up enough for anybody to
> care too much about it or work on it.

But attributes is about paths, at which a blob may or may not exist,
so it is a bad fit to add conditionals that are based on sizes and
types.