Git — add all files that are smaller than X megabytes

Question

I\'m using git to manage a non-coding-project folder that has some large files scattered all over the place.

I\'m not interesting in moving the files around as they

Answer 1

There are no flags to git that will do what you want. However, there are a lot of other utilities available that would work just fine...such as the find command. To add all files smaller than 4 MB:

find * -size -4M -type f -print | xargs git add

This assumes that you have no filenames containing spaces (e.g., "my important file"). If you have such files, then:

find * -size -4M -type f -print0 | xargs -0 git add

UPDATE: Note that I've replaced . with * here, because otherwise it will find (and try to add) things in your .git directory, which is not helpful.

Answer 2

Building off of larsks's answer, you could do the opposite to add the large files to your .gitignore

echo "# Files over 4mb" >> .gitignore
find * -size +4M -type f -print >> .gitignore