That works but most binaries do not have a file extension. Its just not standard on linux.
> On May 17, 2018, at 8:37 AM, Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On May 16, 2018 11:18 PM, Jacob Keller
>> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Anmol Sethi <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I think it’d be great to have an option to have git ignore binary files. My
>> repositories are always source only, committing a binary is always a mistake.
>> At the moment, I have to configure the .gitignore to ignore every binary file
>> and that gets tedious. Having git ignore all binary files would be great.
>>>
>>> This could be achieved via an option in .gitconfig or maybe a special line in
>> .gitignore.
>>>
>>> I just want to never accidentally commit a binary again.
>>
>> I believe you can do a couple things. There should be a hook which you can
>> modify to validate that there are no binary files on pre-commit[1], or pre-
>> push[2] to verify that you never push commits with binaries in them.
>>
>> You could also implement the update hook on the server if you control it, to
>> allow it to block pushes which contain binary files.
>
> What about configuring ${HOME}/.config/git/ignore instead (described at https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore). Inside, put:
>
> *.o
> *.exe
> *.bin
> *.dat
> Etc....
>
> Cheers,
> Randall
>
>
--
Best,
Anmol
