From: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Roger Mendes <sproger1@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please consider extending .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 08:44:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201505080844.40002.thomas@koch.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy4l0m5wf.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Thursday, May 07, 2015 11:31:12 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Roger Mendes <sproger1@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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...;
>
> No.
Please have a look into "git annex". It provides large file support without
blowing up the repository size entirely and has facilities to decide what to
do with files based on multiple criterias like file size.
Maybe some features from git annex have matured enough to be proposed
for inclusion into git?
Regards, Thomas Koch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-08 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-07 21:14 Please consider extending .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit Roger Mendes
2015-05-07 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-08 6:44 ` Thomas Koch [this message]
2015-05-08 6:54 ` Kevin Daudt
2015-05-08 7:09 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2015-05-08 22:13 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-08 21:55 ` Philip Oakley
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