RE: Add option to git to ignore binary files unless force added

On May 16, 2018 11:18 PM, Jacob Keller

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Anmol Sethi [off-list ref] wrote:

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I think it’d be great to have an option to have git ignore binary files. My

repositories are always source only, committing a binary is always a mistake.
At the moment, I have to configure the .gitignore to ignore every binary file
and that gets tedious. Having git ignore all binary files would be great.

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This could be achieved via an option in .gitconfig or maybe a special line in

.gitignore.

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I just want to never accidentally commit a binary again.

I believe you can do a couple things. There should be a hook which you can
modify to validate that there are no binary files on pre-commit[1], or pre-
push[2] to verify that you never push commits with binaries in them.

You could also implement the update hook on the server if you control it, to
allow it to block pushes which contain binary files.

What about configuring ${HOME}/.config/git/ignore instead (described at https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore). Inside, put:

*.o
*.exe
*.bin
*.dat
Etc....

Cheers,
Randall