Ignore files >100MB in your Git repos

[sr320]

via @kubu4

Easiest way I've found to ignore those large files is the following:

In the shell:

1. Change to your Git repo directory
2. find ./* -size +100M | cat >> .gitignore

The command explained:

Find all files in my current directory, and all those directories contained within, that are >100MB. Concatenate this list to the .gitignore file.

[shivam13juna]

We need to remove the "./" then, .gitignore works, this command does that.

find . -size +1G | sed 's|^./||g' | cat >> .gitignore

[petre-c]

The command above will add large file paths to .gitignore, even if they're already present in the file.

Below script will add files larger than 10M to .gitignore and then remove duplicate entries from it:

find . -size +10M | sed 's|^./||g' | cat >> .gitignore
sort .gitignore | uniq  > temp_file && mv temp_file .gitignore