chore: untrack bundled Windows FFmpeg/FFprobe binaries - #1
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Remove bin/ffmpeg.exe and bin/ffprobe.exe (~200 MB combined) from version control. These are already listed in .gitignore and are downloaded on demand by build_windows.py (download_ffmpeg_binaries), so they never needed to be committed. They were tracked despite the .gitignore entry (added before the ignore rule or with -f), which inflated the repository: .git is ~220 MB and every clone pulls the full binaries. This change stops tracking them; the files remain on disk locally and are untouched for builds. Note: this only stops future tracking. Reclaiming the space already in history requires a separate history rewrite (e.g. git filter-repo), intentionally not done here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
bin/ffmpeg.exeandbin/ffprobe.exe(~200 MB combined) are committed to the repository even though:.gitignore(thebin/entry), andbuild_windows.pydownloads them on demand viadownload_ffmpeg_binaries()from gyan.dev.They ended up tracked despite the ignore rule (added before the rule existed, or force-added). The cost is real:
.gitis ~220 MB, and every clone/fetch drags the full binaries.Change
git rm --cached bin/ffmpeg.exe bin/ffprobe.exe— stop tracking the two binaries. The files remain on disk locally and the build process is unaffected (it re-fetches/uses them as before).Scope / caveat
This stops future tracking only. The ~200 MB already in history is not reclaimed by this PR; doing so requires a history rewrite (e.g.
git filter-repo), which is destructive and intentionally left out of this change.Testing
build_windows.pystill finds the on-disk binaries and skips re-download when present.🤖 Generated with Claude Code