[stavros]

Are new files tracked by default? If I forget to ignore a bunch of build outputs, will that make my repo huge immediately?

[stouset]

There’s a configurable cap on max file size to auto-add, IIRC. It defaults to something “reasonable”.

If you do somehow add a terabyte of small files by accident, it’s still just git under the hood so you can make sure nothing active points at them and GC them.

[stavros]

I'm thinking of something like node_modules, sounds like I'll need to not forget.

[steveklabnik]

Those are usually in your gitignore, right?

Also, this behavior (automatically tracking) is configurable. I thought I would hate it but I actually really like it.

[stavros]

Yeah they usually are, I'm sure it's great because I add files more often than I ignore, but I need to be careful with the temporary files I write left and right in the repo dir during development.

[stouset]

Why? You can easily remove them if they’re accidentally added.

[stavros]

Just because I might not remember/notice, and I don't want sensitive data to be committed by accident if I put an env var on disk for some reason.