Ignore binary files

[ohumbel]

To prevent repository bloat, migrators want to ignore binary files (if so configured).
The configuration should at least list some file types to ignore, such as .zip or .jar.

Some background ...

These are reasons why to avoid big repositories:
http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/09/ci-git-repos/

These are tips how to handle big files (if not otherwise possible)
http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/handle-big-repositories-git/

[ohumbel]

I started to implement a prototype

[WtfJoke]

Thanks! Sounds good 👍 🎈

[ohumbel]

Just pushed my work in progress as branch 'bigfiles' to my fork (https://github.com/ohumbel/rtc2git).
No live tests passed so far.

[WtfJoke]

I think its probably useful to replace the code https://github.com/rtcTo/rtc2git/blob/develop/gitFunctions.py#L65 with an extended version of splitoutputofgitstatusz (where modifier is part of the return value - I guess a simple object will do this job)

[ohumbel]

Live tests passed on branch 'bigfiles'.

[WtfJoke]

Good. Ready for merge? 👍

[ohumbel]

Yes, soon ready to merge. I am just working on unit tests, and then ...

[ohumbel]

Unified parsing of the output of 'git status -z' is implemented with ohumbel@f9fcbc7

[ohumbel]

Pull request: #45

[WtfJoke]

Pull request was merged with 5810698