sota staircase SideStepper

a fast .gitignore-respecting large file finder for .git repositories trying to weed out large LFS files

this is brain made software: large language-based code generation has not directly used here. but i'd be lying if i said i didn't ask chatgpt if there was a better way to check a boolean result lol

quickstart

installing a binary

note: all non-windows builds are statically linked

Windows
Linux
macOS universal
macOS amd64
macOS aarch64

(also available in the 'releases' tab wherever this repository is situated in)

build it yourself

get rust and cargo
cargo build release

nix users, rejoice: nix run github:markjoshwel/sidestepper or nix run git+:https://forge.joshwel.co/mark/sidestepper

running it

./sidestepper

or on windows,

./sidestepper.exe

it'll find for a .git directory in the current or parent directories, if you want to use this not in the context i usually use this for, pass in --search-here to treat the current working directory as the 'repository root'

it'll then make a .sotaignore file that i use in my other tooling, but if you want output more friendly for integration in other places, pass in --plumbing for it to output encountered large files, line-by-line, to stdout

historical changes

v5 (i3/a4) - rewritten in rust lol
v4 (i2/a4) - optimised single iod-ttt
v3 (i2/a3) - faster matching by remembering ignored directories (ignore on demand, 'iod')
v2 (i2/a2) - corrected ignored directory matching (named 'trytrytry')
v1 (i1/a1) - original python script, still embedded within ReStepper

licence

the sota staircase SideStepper is permissively licenced, not needing attribution, under the 0BSD licence. go ham.

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