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Birdie

Birdie is a desktop application for managing game assets through Git. It is very early in development.

Features:

• Download asset files on-demand. In a standard Git LFS workflow, git pull would automatically download any files changed upstream, but this can be slow and inefficient for large files, especially if those files are irrelevant to the current user.
• Lock assets using Git LFS file locking.
• View repo history

Sample Git configuration

Birdie expects repositories to be configured for Git LFS in a specific way. Here’s an example .gitattributes file:

[attr]lfs filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=binary -text
[attr]lock filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=binary -text lockable
[attr]lockonly lockable
[attr]lfstext filter=lfs diff=lfstext merge=lfstext -text

# audio
*.wav lock
*.mp3 lock
*.ogg lock

# images
*.png lock
*.jpeg lock
*.jpg lock
*.tif lock
*.tga lock
*.eps lock
*.PNG lock
*.JPEG lock
*.PNG lock
*.TIF lock
*.TGA lock

# materials
*.mtl lock
*.zt lock
*.ztl lock

# skin
*.sknr lock

# mocap
*.mvn lock
*.mvnx lock

# models
*.gltf lock
*.glb lock
*.fbx lock
*.FBX lock
*.obj lock
*.usd lock
*.usda lock

# video
*.mp4 lock
*.mpg lock

# Adobe
*.psd lock
*.aep lock
*.ai lock
*.prproj lock

# Blender
*.blend lock

# Maya
*.ma lock
*.mb lock

# PureRef
*.pur lock

# SketchUp
*.skp lock

# SpeedTree
*.spm lock

# ZBrush
*.ZPR lock
*.zpr lock

# archives
*.zip lock

# misc
*.pdf lock
*.sgt lock

Here’s a sample .lfsconfig:

[lfs]
url = "https://example-lfs.com/api/org-name/repo-name"
fetchexclude = "*"

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