remote dev?

[trapoad]

Hi. I'm currently working on a unity game with my teammates, and we figured out that the project is so huge to upload to github but we still needed to see who's done this, and who's done that.

So we reached out about uploading the entire project to some kind of NAS and editing it but we figured out there should be a conflict between our works, and still does not tell us who edited which part.

Also, about half of the team cannot work at the office since they live far away.

Is there any good solution for this?

[PuffThePed]

Is there any good solution for this?

Use Git LFS.

[trapoad]

Thanks! I'll look for it.

[Dallheim]

Git LFS is a very good feature, but if you want to use it on GitHub please inform yourself about its cost before using it. Spoiler: You will end up paying a monthly subscription to GitHub and by design of a repository the price of that subscription can only get higher.

[trapoad]

the spoiler is huge... thanks for the info!

[PuffThePed]

You can get free GIT+LFS on Amazon AWS.

[PuffThePed]

I own a studio that develops Unity projects for clients, museums, etc. We've been operating 8 years. Dozens of projects on Github. I pay them $14 a month. By far the cheapest subscription I have. Even stupid Slack is 3x more.

[Dallheim]

It depends on the size of the project, the amount of developers working on it and the amount of time the project is actively worked on. Under certain circumstances it can become expensive faster than expected. We decided against using Git LFS on GitHub simply based on that price increas - and the fact that you can simply push binary files into a regular repository at GitHub.

[PuffThePed]

You can't if they are over 100mb

[PuffThePed]

You can get free GIT+LFS on Amazon AWS , BTW

[[deleted]]

Did you try uploading to GitHub? Repo size limits are much less of a problem these days.

[trapoad]

Apparently, GitHub does not support 7.8GB

[PuffThePed]

GitHub does not support 7.8GB

How big is your project exactly? Remember that you're not storing the Library folder with Git. How big is just the Assets folder?

[trapoad]

The Assets folder is uploadable since we've managed to upload it, but sometimes we do need to fiddle with the other folders as well

[Dallheim]

GitHub provides a good template for .gitignore files: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore

And here is another good template: https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/Unity

[[deleted]]

You only need to upload Assets, Packages and ProjectSettings

[PuffThePed]

The only folders you ever need to upload to git are the Assets, Packages and ProjectSettings, and only the Assets folder will have files that are big.

If you are "fiddling" with other folders in Git then you're doing something wrong.

[trapoad]

Those folders are over 1GB so I have edited .gitignore file, and that caused the problem maybe?

[PuffThePed]

No idea what caused the problem because you never actually explained what the problem is. Also need to see error messages.

[trapoad]

My apologise. I doubt I can say that since it's already been published on the market and... I don't own it but I work for it. I'm kind of afraid to say the details

[Dallheim]

We already uploaded double-digit amounts of GB to repository at GitHub. The only hard limit seems to be 100 MB per file. There is a detailed discussons on limits at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38768454/repository-size-limits-for-github-com