Git Limitation - How do you manage UE4 Git repository?

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From Git hosting vendors, such as GitHub or Bitbucket Cloud, I receive answers like

The repositories themselves may not exceed 1GB in size — this is a technical limitation of Git

After downloading some assets from the marketplace, I noticed that the repository size of my UE 4 project was 2.14GB when using Git 2.12 and $ git count-objects -v command.

I faced the size limitation of Git.

In this situation, how should I manage my UE 4 project with Git?

Should I split the repository in two? (Like repo A: Blueprints + UE 4 project file + C/C++ codes, repo B: assets)

Or using Perforce 4 is the solution?

-Best Regards

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First you may want to try garbage collection if you have a long history.

Like:

git gc
git gc --aggressive
git prune

It could reduce the size quite a bit.

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Hi, DevDevy. Thanks for your time!

Well, I might be weird; after creating my UE4 project with the assets, the initial repository size was 2GB.
So I won’t receive noticeable advantage after trying that.

In this case, what can I do to decrease it?
Should I split the repository in two? (Like repo A: Blueprints + UE 4 project file + C/C++ codes, repo B: assets)

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That’d get rid of the point of version control. You’ll want to include your assets. However, anything free of course has its limits.

Update: Try GitLab they’ve got 10GBs. :slight_smile:

Make sure you aren’t commiting the DerivedDataCache, Intermediate, or Binaries folders; these right here can well exceed 1GB. DerivedDataCache and Intermediate are temporary and not required for a successful build.

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Wow, great news about GitLab!

$ git ls-files | grep Intermediate
# Nothing appeared
$ cat .gitignore
# Thanks to GitHub Desktop 3, this was already configured. Thanks for reminding me
# Compiled source files for the engine to use
Intermediate/*
# Cache files for the editor to use
DerivedDataCache/*
# Binary Files
Binaries/*
# ... and more

Thanks for telling me. I will try that right away.