How about a hook to ignore certain files? Then you could ignore based on the contents of the fail instead of just the extension. It’d be very flexible.
> On May 18, 2018, at 2:09 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Anmol Sethi <m...@anmol.io> wrote: >> This definitely works but it would be more clean to just have git ignore the >> binary files from the get go. >> > > Sure it'd be more convenient for you. But there are loads of possible > combinations, and the idea of what constitutes unwanted files is > hugely variable to each user. We don't really want to end up > supporting a million different ways to do this, and the hooks > interface provides a reasonable method for rejecting commits with > unwanted contents. > > > Thanks, > Jake -- Best, Anmol
