2026-05-11

# Git sucks with big files

Disclaimer
 - **Thinking aloud. May not endorse after a lot of thought.**
 - If ASI is built or AI fully (not partially) automates software development, this post no longer matters
 - target audience - anyone directly working on the team of git or github

Main
 - `git lfs` sucks. `git-filter-branch` sucks.
 - Obviously no one wants to track a full commit history of changes for large files, this is what `git lfs` aimed to solve forever, unfortunately it sucks.
 - So far my best solution is whenever a video file gets committed by mistake, then make sure local repo is latest, delete the github repo, make sure `.gitignore` ignores all video files, then push the local repo to a new github repo.
 - By default, make sure `.gitignore` ignores all video files.
 - I used to think I suck at using git, I'm now much more confident it is git that sucks at this use case. To be clear, I am still a mediocre dev, but I also think git is bad at this use case.
 - Side note for you guys - I think `git add . && git commit -m "$RANDOM" && git push` deserves an alias.