# Feature request: "git status" highlights files that are larger than 500kb.

2 messages from 2017-05-26 to 2017-05-27. Participants: Zhomart Mukhamejanov, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/46048

## Zhomart Mukhamejanov, 2017-05-26 00:24

Subject: Feature request: "git status" highlights files that are larger than 500kb.
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So it will be easy to track that we don't accidentally commit huge files.

What do you think?

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## Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2017-05-27 09:00

Subject: Re: Feature request: "git status" highlights files that are larger than 500kb.
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In-Reply-To: <CA+9OxukkO8khvPtYdSMLL0pa5vmOCZaTJbx+CWYXze-TC2nrpQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 2:24 AM, Zhomart Mukhamejanov
<mzhomart@gmail.com> wrote:
> So it will be easy to track that we don't accidentally commit huge files.

Isn't doing this via a pre-commit or pre-receive hook both more
reliable & actually a 1=1 mapping to what you really care about?

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