With github.com/martinvonz/jj (Jujutsu), there is a common failure mode:
You checkout too far back into the history where the .gitignore
does not catch anymore your large files and you become stuck forever with:
$ jj show
Error: Failed to snapshot the working copy: New file very/big/file of size ~922.4MiB exceeds snapshot.max-new-file-size (1.0MiB)
If it's just one big file, no biggie: