gitignore by file size?

git configuration blob gitignore large-files
Warren Benedetto picture Warren Benedetto · Oct 27, 2010 · Viewed 16.7k times · Source

I'm trying to implement Git to manage creative assets (Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, etc.), and I'd like to exclude files from Git based on file size rather than extension, location, etc.

For example, I don't want to exclude all .avi files, but there are a handful of massive +1GB avi files in random directories that I don't want to commit.

Any suggestions?

Answer

abendine picture abendine · Mar 5, 2011

I'm new to .gitignore, so there may be better ways to do this, but I've been excluding files by file size using:

find . -size +1G | cat >> .gitignore

Obviously you'll have to run this code frequently if you're generating a lot of large files.

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