Enhanced .gitignore management with Bash and Git

📅 2023-05-24 — Session: Enhanced .gitignore management with Bash and Git

🕒 19:35–20:15
🏷️ Labels: Gitignore, Bash, Automation, File Management, Encoding
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal: The session aimed to enhance the management of the .gitignore file by automating the inclusion of large files and ensuring proper file encoding and path formats.

Key Activities:

• Developed a Bash command to clear and update the .gitignore file with files larger than 99 MB.
• Utilized the tee command for appending output to .gitignore while adding descriptive comments.
• Implemented solutions to resolve issues with Git not ignoring previously tracked files using git rm --cached.
• Checked and set the encoding of the .gitignore file to UTF-8 using vim and verified it using the file command.
• Generated a .gitignore file with paths formatted relative to the repository root using find and sed.

Achievements:

• Automated the process of managing large files in .gitignore, ensuring they are ignored by Git.
• Ensured the .gitignore file is correctly encoded and paths are properly formatted.

Pending Tasks:

• Further testing of the .gitignore automation in different repository environments to confirm robustness.