deployment - Git workflow for working on large web app without messing with history

Question

We've been trying a few answers we found here but none of them resolved our problem for good. I am working on a projet which exceeded git's large file threshold a few weeks ago. The large file is the compiled app.

We deploy on our prod server by pushing on a CleverCloud distant repo, and so have to add the .jar (which is in .gitignore the rest of the time) to the Deploy commit. For the past weeks we would then rewrite local history without the large file and continue working, but then at the next deployment we need to pull from CleverCloud since the history is different, we get the large file back in our history, sometimes forget it, have to rewrite 5 or 10 commits before pushing, which are not always only local commits etc... we need to find a solution before it gets messier than that.

We tried using git-lfs but then we have to untrack before commiting for Deploy, and then I guess the problem comes back.

What could be our solution ? Thanks

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65916080/git-workflow-for-working-on-large-web-app-without-messing-with-history

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