Closed milanwiedemann closed 7 months ago
https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ is very helpful if you do want to purge a file permanently from a repo's history (and includes a switch specifically targeted at removing large blobs).
Are you okay to take a look @Lextuga007 ?
This sounds brilliant, thanks for sharing @stupidpupil. Just out of interest @tomjemmett did you use this or something else when you sorted out the large image files in the https://github.com/nhs-r-community/intro_r repo?
I did it far more manually. I did look at this and saw it was java and skipped over it (didn't have JRE installed at the time and didn't want to install it just for this...).
fwiw, it may be worth setting up this hook to prevent this kind of issue (I think I'm going to start using it!)
three options for hosting large files:
Can close as package has functions that link directly to sources but these are good options to consider @tomjemmett for any future sources of data.
adding the raw LSOA data (https://github.com/nhs-r-community/LSOApop/blob/89bbb4950b2f80f58a818a804a3e9045f9f3caf2/data-raw/SAPE22DT2-mid-2019-lsoa-syoa-estimates-unformatted.xlsx) to this repo may not have been such a good idea ...
it seems as if the entire repo is always downloaded when installing from github, this takes a lot of time and is quite inconvenient in general! I may need to delete this file and see if this helps or alternatively start all over again and add this file to .gitignore right from the start ... awrgh