Let’s say I was doing stuff in a local directory. I added a large file, I commit and push, but I get an error stating that the file is too large. If I didn’t care about this file making its way to the Github repo, how can I go about removing it from the commit without ruining the rest of my progress? I tried deleting the file, re-adding and re-commiting, but I get the same error when I push. So far my workaround has been to copy everything in the directory except .git to a different, temporary folder, revert to origin/master, and then replace everything back in with the changes I want. I haven’t found a good solution for just… ignoring the large file or removing it from the commit, nothing I’ve found online has worked and the commit always just fails because of the large file.

Edit: hey everyone thanks for all the replies! I appreciate it, I’ll have to test out these sometime.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    desire to keep out of commercial cloud providers

    I’m afraid that GitHub is run by Microsoft and I would consider it pretty thoroughly corporate these days.

    Fair enough if you want to get more familiar with git (although using it as a cloud service is basically just gonna be add all and then commit, surely? you’re not practising any other git operations if only using as cloud storage?), but people normally do this with programming projects, which you should have no shortage of as a CS major.

    • ComicalMayhem@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 days ago

      I’m afraid that GitHub is run by Microsoft and I would consider it pretty thoroughly corporate these days

      Ah. Did not know that. That’s… unfortunate.

      although using it as a cloud service is basically just gonna be add all and then commit, surely? you’re not practising any other git operations if only using as cloud storage?

      This is true enough actually but it helped drill the process into my head when I first started it and I found it simple enough to use after a while, esp since I just wrote a bash function to cut down on cd’ing.

      but people normally do this with programming projects, which you should have no shortage of as a CS major.

      You’d be surprised.