Re: Please consider extending .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit

[Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>]

On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 08:54:59AM +0200, Kevin Daudt wrote:
> My experience in #git is that people want to prevent other people
> accidentelly adding large files, resulting in all sorts of problems,
> which takes a lot of effort to fix if you're not an experienced user.

I second this. In #git@freenode we often get people trying to reduce
repo size since they or a collegue accidental added a huge binary file.

They do a filter branch and remove that file. However then they need to
do a forced push. And the person (the collegue) that didn't had enough
git experience to understand why it was a mistake to add a big file, now
ends up with having to sync with a rewritten remote.

So I can really see that there's a demand for such a feature. However, I
wonder if this shouldn't just be a pre-recieve hook?

If we want to inform the user, we might just add a pre-commit hook for
this.

The problem with pre-commit hooks is distribution of them. As it is with
making this a configuration option. There's really no good way to share
configuration and hooks between git repos today as I know of. (Yes, I'm
aware of this beeing a hard problem due to security concerns).

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Fredrik Gustafsson

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