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.
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