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Size limits on repos?
I was wondering why nur-combined was so big, turns out there's a 30+ gif in someone's repo! :laughing:
Well, that'd do it. But perhaps the update checker should consider such binary assets similar to a failing evaluation? Problem is deciding how big is too big...
And sorry to name names but the repo is @Ma27's-- @Ma27 is there a good alternative approach/location for storing the demo.gif that doesn't bundle it with your expressions?
I don't think it's catastrophically bad, and mostly impacts anyone curious about that repo or using nur-combined. Questions above are more about ensuring there's not some multi-gigabyte beast in the future.
I also thought about excluding large repositories from being included in nur-combined.
for my repo i do a subdirectory-filter with git filter-branch to avoid exporting all my systems config,modules,libs and tests ( https://git.shackspace.de/krebs/stockholm/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml#L15 ).
And sorry to name names but the repo is @Ma27's-- @Ma27 is there a good alternative approach/location for storing the demo.gif that doesn't bundle it with your expressions?
That's perfectly fine, in the end you're absolutely right, that was a pretty bad idea :/
I have to admit that I currently don't use the NUR mechanism as I figured some time ago that simply using nix.nixPath and import <nixexprs> { /* ... */ } suits better for my workflow. As it isn't the first time I got pinged due to some problem with my repository I guess that it's the best for everyone if I remove my repo from NUR for now.
