Re: [git-users] Extend .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit so that all files over a certain size will by automatically ignored
On Thu, 7 May 2015 13:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Roger Mendes sprog...@gmail.com wrote: [...] This seems like a fairly simple feature to add, I'm not sure why no one has done this or thought of it given the number of complaints, questions... with large file handling. We can ignore by file name attribute, why not by file size? Yes, I know I can add pre-commit scripts... to workaround this issue, but there should be a better way (or maybe I'm missing something?). I humbly think this proposition is ill-concieved in fact. The problem you're trying to solve using technical tools is, in fact, social / political: if people are unable/unwilling to properly review what they commit, they have to be educated, and then possibly penalized on repeated faults. I can understand why github has this setting in place: they provide free hosting for hundreds of thousand throwaway repositories, and obviously have to combat goofs like accidentially committing junk. In real environments, like private / corporate repos, such goofs are way easier to fix: you just tell the person to amend a commit and force-push, or let a user with more rights do that, if required, while explaining why things gone bad and how to avoid that in the future. IOW, it's possible to provide an educational hands-holding in such a case. On the other hand, ignoring files by name is useful for everyone as the most common application of a VCS is managing the source code of a program, and so you want to ignore backup files made by text editor, IDE- or toolchain-generated crap, binary files which are the result of compiling the source code etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[git-users] Extend .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit so that all files over a certain size will by automatically ignored
Allow .gitignore to support setting a file size limit so that all files over a certain size will by automatically ignored when performing git add, commit -a...; Exclusions to this size limit for files can be allowed by specifying exceptions '!' syntax that already exists. It probably should be considered to have a default limit already built into git of say 100MB (used by github) which can be changed in the .gitignore file. This would avoid accidental commits of large files which are known to be poorly supported. This seems like a fairly simple feature to add, I'm not sure why no one has done this or thought of it given the number of complaints, questions... with large file handling. We can ignore by file name attribute, why not by file size? Yes, I know I can add pre-commit scripts... to workaround this issue, but there should be a better way (or maybe I'm missing something?). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [git-users] Extend .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit so that all files over a certain size will by automatically ignored
off I wonder why this is in the heads about Git… Git *does* support large files. The problem comes when these files are *binary*. /off 2015-05-07 22:45 GMT+02:00 Roger Mendes sprog...@gmail.com: Allow .gitignore to support setting a file size limit so that all files over a certain size will by automatically ignored when performing git add, commit -a...; Exclusions to this size limit for files can be allowed by specifying exceptions '!' syntax that already exists. It probably should be considered to have a default limit already built into git of say 100MB (used by github) which can be changed in the .gitignore file. This would avoid accidental commits of large files which are known to be poorly supported. This seems like a fairly simple feature to add, I'm not sure why no one has done this or thought of it given the number of complaints, questions... with large file handling. We can ignore by file name attribute, why not by file size? Yes, I know I can add pre-commit scripts... to workaround this issue, but there should be a better way (or maybe I'm missing something?). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
