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@thodson-usgs

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My collaborators had a tendency to accidentally commit PDF, which made it harder to incorporate their pull requests.
Consider adding PDF to gitignore.

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sanjib-sen commented Jun 1, 2023

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Good observation. Thanks. Although, I am not sure what will happen when a person not so good with gitignore suddenly finds that their PDFs are not updating after git sync! (Considering many people also commit their PDF's).

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I'm okay making it (slightly) harder to commit a pdf, but that's up to you.
Then perhaps ignore everything in PDF except the pdf's with

PDF/*
!PDF/*.pdf

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thodson-usgs commented Jun 1, 2023

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My justification being that git stores the entire file for each commit---not a diff--- so a careless user will commit numerous pdfs during the lifecycle of a document, bloating the repo. But I also recognize the convenience of having the pdf accessible via github.

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