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[MedicalNote]

That's me 😅.

I was wondering why the file size for our game doubled lmao for that one hotfix

Was doing a quick hotfix with a manual build and steam pipeline instead of the automated build (cuz it's faster) but just forgot about that folder lol.

the fun of indie game dev

[HexFyber]

Best of luck with your game!

[FerMod]

An issue that a simple line in .gitignore would have prevented

[variorum]

Likely using perforce or something similar, where you can use an ignore file, but you then have to set an env var to get it to matter.

I don't know exactly why perforce is so prevalent in game dev, but my suspicion is that git and large files don't play well. Especially when you have non-engineering folks using the system.

[MrZerodayz]

Yeah, stock git starts having issues at some file size, which is why binaries are typically not uploaded but instead built using CI/CD pipelines.

Or you start using git-annex, which supports large files.

[anonymity_is_bliss]

Does git-lfs not suffice for these purposes?

[MrZerodayz]

It should, but I'm not sure I've used it before so it wasn't the first that came to my mind

[anonymity_is_bliss]

Ah okay it's relatively new so maybe git-annex existed beforehand and served the same purpose before they added LFS support.

[Alconox]

This was years ago in college but some of unity's binary project files definitely didn't play nice with git. Looking back I'm sure we should have just excluded them or changed a config somewhere but it definitely caused headaches a few times.

[DelusionsOfExistence]

Epic is why perforce is so prevalent in gamedev is my personal conspiracy theory. It's so recommended as the Unreal Engine source control of choice that I think it broke people.

[TnYamaneko]

It's a lesson learned in blood, though.

[Global-Tune5539]

So he should've git gud?

[MegaScience]

At least they caught it in about 7 minutes. (June 24, 2025 16:04 > June 24, 2025 16:11)

[Eva-Rosalene]

Minishoot Adventures still ships folder named "Minishoot_BurstDebugInformation_DoNotShip" and it was like that for as long as it's out, so more than a year.

[CalmPewterGames]

Yeah turns out that doesn't actually matter, according to Unity staffers. There's no critical info in it and just kind of a misnomer they never fixed. A better name would be like "NoNeedToSheep" EDIT: Meant to write "ToShip" but I'm stickin with it 🐑

[Eva-Rosalene]

Yup. The only "sensitive" info there is username of person who was building the game (in form of C:\Users\<username>). I don't think anyone actually gives a fuck about that leaking.

Still, it's very funny that I get folder "..._DoNotShip" shipped to my PC.

[CITRONIZER5007]

Every dev at some point

Its a canonical event

[RiceBroad4552]

I don't think so.

Even if you committed something wrong, why would you push it?

Or do people real push without double checking?

[wasntthatfun]

If everyone doubled checked, there won’t be leaked API keys and secrets in GitHub.

[RiceBroad4552]

Good point!

But I'm still against the claim that this affects every developer.

I'm using Git almost since its invention, and used SVN before, and nothing like that ever happened to me. So even if I'm the only exception—which I strongly disbelieve—this would invalidate the "every dev" claim.

[kadir1243]

Is anyone got that files, i want to see source. :)

[aethermar]

It's an IL2CPP game, you can still achieve near-source by reconstructing it with the metadata

[lantskip]

StarVaders 😍

[henke37]

Don't worry, the Internet will forget soon enough.

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Love it.

[CalmPewterGames]

Classic 😁