Version Control in Git - Bitbucket

Question

I've used other version control applications before whilst developing SSIS packages yet I'm working on an API and nodejs application at present and considering using bitbucket.

I had a look at it today and created a repository and started with some files.

My question is around the application I've onboarded it has a large Visual Studio solution for the API yet I can't see how I'd get that onto bitbucket as a master. Returned 413 errors and I suspect it's due to the size about 1GB.

My understanding of version control in the past scenario was that it would take all files so the entire application can be tracked.

Might be missing something… not sure?

Answer 1

Have you considered using gitignore file. You can setup git to ignore some files in your repo. Usually people do not include dependencies (like node modules) or generated binaries in the repo because they can get quite large and can be easily downloaded.

You can use website like gitignore.io to generate the file for you based on the project type.