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65 lines
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# sota staircase SideStepper
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a fast .gitignore-respecting large file finder for .git repositories trying to
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weed out large LFS files
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**this is brain made software**: large language-based code generation has not
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directly used here. but i'd be lying if i said i didn't ask chatgpt if there
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was a better way to check a boolean result lol
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## quickstart
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### installing a binary
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**note:** all non-windows builds are statically linked
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- Windows
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- Linux
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- macOS universal
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- macOS amd64
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- macOS aarch64
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(also available in the 'releases' tab wherever this repository is situated in)
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### build it yourself
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1. [get rust and cargo](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation.html#install-rust-and-cargo)
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2. `cargo build release`
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**nix users, rejoice:** `nix run github:markjoshwel/sidestepper` or `nix run git+:https://forge.joshwel.co/mark/sidestepper`
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### running it
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```text
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./sidestepper
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```
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or on windows,
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```text
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./sidestepper.exe
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```
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it'll find for a `.git` directory in the current or parent directories, if you
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want to use this not in the context i usually use this for, pass in
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`--search-here` to treat the current working directory as the 'repository root'
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it'll then make a `.sotaignore` file that i use in my other tooling,
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but if you want output more friendly for integration in other places,
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pass in `--plumbing` for it to output encountered large files, line-by-line, to
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stdout
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## historical changes
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- v5 (i3/a4) - rewritten in rust lol
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- v4 (i2/a4) - optimised single iod-ttt
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- v3 (i2/a3) - faster matching by remembering ignored directories (ignore on demand, 'iod')
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- v2 (i2/a2) - corrected ignored directory matching (named 'trytrytry')
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- v1 (i1/a1) - original python script, still embedded within ReStepper
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## licence
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with all my heart, copyright (c) 2025 mark joshwel
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the sota staircase SideStepper is permissively licenced, not needing
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attribution, under the [0BSD licence](LICENCE). go ham.
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